A Year After 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies', Authors Give Away 1,000 Free E-books
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-17
Nathaniel Soares (So8res) and Eliezer Yudkowsky mark the one-year anniversary of publishing If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by giving away 1,000 free copies of the e-book. Soares notes that over the past week it feels like half the world is interested in the topic, and the book's site now includes a brief retrospective on the year's developments and how well the book's arguments hold up.
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