Silicon Valley insiders reportedly bemused by sudden prominence of p(doom) talk
ProfChesterman · x · 2026-09-22
After conversations across Silicon Valley — past the Golden Gate Bridge, freeways and Stanford's Dish — the author reflects on how the community has debated these topics for years. One practice stood out: turning individual failures into collective knowledge rather than isolated anecdotes. Most striking, many locals seem bemused by the sudden prominence elsewhere of existential risk and p(doom) discourse.
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