Miles Brundage: Bay Area AGI crowd reads exactly one book at a time
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-30
Miles Brundage notes a peculiar Bay Area AGI phenomenon: the whole scene collectively fixates on one book or series at a time — from The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Three-Body Problem to Seeing Like a State and Caro's LBJ volumes. He muses that these 'book eras' may be over, replaced by essays and podcasts.
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