Jeannette Cooperman at The Common Reader:
If Altman likes you, he will recommend that you read The Beginning of Infinity, by a British physicist who believes all evils and failures are due to insufficient knowledge. “Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.” We have entered “the beginning of infinity,” a period of unbounded progress.
But if Altman really believes this, why is he stockpiling guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force in his prepper house?
Worst-case: Privately, Altman does recognize the risk of societal collapse, and he is just in this for the rush of power and the influx of cash. He is nonchalant about his racecars; he keeps the casual wardrobe and informality of the tech bro and gets excited about concepts so abstract, they are almost spiritual. Yet materialism keeps slipping in.
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