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Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter

Émile P. Torres's weekly newsletter examining the ideologies driving Silicon Valley — effective altruism, longtermism, TESCREAL, and the race to build artificial superintelligence — from a critical, insider-turned-skeptic perspective.

From the site: Stop doomscrolling and just read this! Click to read Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter, by Émile P. Torres, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

A long-form critical essay by Émile P. Torres arguing that the effective altruism movement has become a cult-like ideology with its own doctrines, charismatic leaders, jargon and social controls — and that this matters for how AI is being developed.

From the site: Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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"Enshittification" Isn't Real

An a16z essay arguing that platform decline is better explained by platform incentives and narcissism than by the popular "enshittification" framing.

Why I recommend it: Read this next to Cory Doctorow's original argument. Holding two competing explanations of platform decay makes you sharper when you evaluate the tools your career depends on.

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a16z.newsAdded Sep 1, 20260 opens