"Obsolete" is criminally underrated: one of the best explainers of the AI race
trevposts · x · 2026-11-13
A reader recommends Garrison Lovely's book Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It, calling it criminally underrated — accessible, even-handed (with valid shots at EAs/rationalists), and highly accurate.
His main disagreement: Lovely is more bullish than he is on the feasibility of a decades-long pause on AI development.
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