'Palo Alto' author BigMeanInternet talks with fellow writer AdrianChen about his political education, the latest artificial intelligence freakout, and his doorstop of a book.
. This was the early days of Occupy Wall Street, which I’d been part of since the first general assembly on August 2nd before the occupation of Wall Street. And there were many meetings going on between people who were trying to further the Occupy Wall Street project. The biggest band in the world at the time was. And they were playing a few gigs in New York, at whatever ballroom. And someone said, “It’d be great if we had a Radiohead concert. Then everyone would show up.
CHEN: Let’s talk a little more about the book. I hear from authors that pub week is an intense experience. CHEN: Something that I have realized, reading a lot more history, is just how important anti-communism was as a sort of cultural force that oriented so many things that we are told from a more positive version of American exceptionalism or whatever. But people have been and were terrified of communists. And that explains a lot of the 20th century that you get into in your book.
HARRIS: And it’s interesting, thinking back to, “Well, where did I start reading books?” I started reading books out of the secondhand stores of Palo Alto, where these new left people put them for me to find, ultimately. So even the books I was reading to first learn critical thought were the jetsam of these past struggles, even if I didn’t understand them as that.
HARRIS: It’s a good example of how Silicon Valley’s constantly waking up and realizing, “Oh, that was all a dream. That was a big mistake. Fyre Fest,. Things got out of control and that was too much hype.” And then they have to forget about that and start over again, constantly. It was very funny watching the transition from crypto to AI, where the hype-cycle gap was so small that you could watch them repeating the same lines.
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