Clegg on the Bay Area AGI Crowd: Same Clothes, Same Cars, Same Book of the Moment
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-30
Miles Brundage jokes that the Bay Area AGI crowd fixates on one book at a time — The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Three-Body Problem, Seeing Like a State, Caro's LBJ — and maybe eras are over, leaving only essays and podcasts. sebkrier shares a Clegg quote on the scene's herd behavior: everyone dresses, drives, and claims to read the same, all following the same trend.
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