More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to talk about introspection-free venture capital, the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse effect of LLMs, and trying to find a better future to focus on.
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| 0:09.1 | Spoken without fear. |
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| 0:41.8 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host at Zetron. As ever, go to Better Offline. |
| 0:52.3 | As ever, go to the episode notes to sign up to the newsletter. Please do the premium. It's how make me money? Buy a fuck data center's t-shirt or join one of the assorted communities if you ever want to fall further into the larger Zitronverse. But today we're joined by the author of More, Everything Forever. That's right, journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker. Adam, how you doing? I'm doing well, Ed. How are you? Good on you podcast, don't you? Yeah, I do. It's called Dreaming Against the Machine and it just came out pretty recently. What's about? Well, it's like a more optimistic version of this podcast. Okay. No, I like this. |
| 1:28.5 | I want to hear about that. |
| 1:29.6 | Tell me. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.5 | So, you know, I spent a lot of time when I was writing my book, more everything forever, |
| 1:38.2 | thinking about terrible people and their bad ideas about the future. |
| 1:41.9 | And that made me want to think more about good ideas about the future and people who I actually like. |
| 1:48.2 | And so the podcast is about, you know, trying to imagine what a realistic good future could look like. |
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