Quantum Ontology (WHAT IS REAL?) Encore with Adam Becker

Hello, hello, this is 2026 Allie, and I'd like to toss us down a wormhole with one of my favorite episodes. But before we get into it, a little update. This ologist, Dr. Adam Becker, has recently released a new book. It's titled More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.

It's about the ideology of technological salvation, where this religious belief comes from, who's pushing it by pretending it's science instead of religion, and how it's taken over Silicon Valley, and also how it threatens to take over the world. Again, his book, More Everything Forever. That's his new one. And he told me by email, I'm pretty hopeful that we can successfully fight back against this stuff.

So you'll hear more about his book, What is Real, but also just an update, More Everything Forever is now out. Okay, onward. Oh hey, it's your old internet uncle, Dad Ward von Podcast, here with another episode of Alogies, Allie Ward, hi. So do you remember your first real existential crisis? Also, if you clicked on this and don't know jack or shit about quantum physics, you're in the right place.

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