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Worker & Parasite

A fortnightly podcast on which Stably and I take a single book—philosophy, history, politics, fiction—and use it to think aloud about power, belief, and human nature. Recurring themes include modernity’s costs, institutional decay, post-religious belief, mass psychology, and decline without collapse.

Cover of More Everything Forever

Latest · No. 114 · Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

More Everything Forever

by Adam Becker

In this episode Jerry and Stably discussed More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker.

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The Shelf

114 books since September 2020

  1. 114 More Everything Forever Adam Becker Oct 19, 2026
  2. 113 Buddha's Little Finger Victor Pelevin Sep 25, 2026
  3. 112 Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J.L. Mackie Sep 10, 2026
  4. 111 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel Aug 11, 2026
  5. 110 The God Test Robert Wright Jul 16, 2026
  6. 109 Addiction by Design Natasha Dow Schull Jul 2, 2026
  7. 108 The Special One Diego Torres Jun 16, 2026
  8. 107 Homo Ludens Johan Huizinga Jun 2, 2026
  9. 106 Ride the Tiger Julius Evola Apr 20, 2026
  10. 105 Leap of Faith Michael J. Mazarr Mar 24, 2026
  11. 104 The Digital Reversal Andrey Mir Mar 10, 2026
  12. 103 On Photography Susan Sontag Feb 25, 2026
  13. 102 On the Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer Jan 27, 2026
  14. 101 The Return of the Common Good Stefan Borg Dec 30, 2025
  15. 100 The Human Stain Philip Roth Dec 8, 2025
  16. 99 Days of Rage Bryan Burrough Nov 6, 2025
  17. 98 The Invention of Good and Evil Hanno Sauer Oct 15, 2025
  18. 97 Total Defense Andrew Preston Sep 18, 2025
  19. 96 The Dorito Effect Mark Schatzker Aug 14, 2025
  20. 95 Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman Jul 17, 2025
  21. 94 The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian Jun 5, 2025
  22. 93 The Unaccountability Machine Dan Davies May 18, 2025
  23. 92 The Art of Happiness Epicurus May 4, 2025
  24. 91 Huey Long T. Harry Williams (Part 2) Apr 17, 2025
  25. 90 Huey Long T. Harry Williams (Part 1) Mar 15, 2025
  26. 89 A Generation of Sociopaths Bruce Cannon Gibney Feb 18, 2025
  27. 88 Kaiser! Rob Smyth Jan 28, 2025
  28. 87 Fat Leonard Craig Whitlock Jan 17, 2025
  29. 86 Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov Jan 2, 2025
  30. 85 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin Dec 17, 2024
  31. 84 The Theological Origins of Modernity Michael Allen Gillespie Nov 24, 2024
  32. 83 The Prophets of Doom Neema Parvini Nov 7, 2024
  33. 82 What Went Wrong with Capitalism Ruchir Sharma Oct 22, 2024
  34. 81 The Case Against Reality Donald Hoffman Sep 26, 2024
  35. 80 Losing the Long Game Philip H. Gordon Sep 3, 2024
  36. 79 The World That Wasn't Benn Steil Aug 19, 2024
  37. 78 The World Beyond Your Head Matthew B. Crawford Jul 25, 2024
  38. 77 The United States of Paranoia Jesse Walker Jul 8, 2024
  39. 76 The Populist Delusion Neema Parvini Jun 25, 2024
  40. 75 Lessons in Stoicism John Sellars Jun 14, 2024
  41. 74 The Formula Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg May 17, 2024
  42. 73 Virtue Hoarders Catherine Liu May 3, 2024
  43. 72 The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter Apr 19, 2024
  44. 71 Technopoly Neil Postman Mar 21, 2024
  45. 70 How the World Really Works Vaclav Smil Mar 5, 2024
  46. 69 A City on Mars Kelly and Zach Weinersmith Feb 15, 2024
  47. 68 Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror Andrey Mir Jan 30, 2024
  48. 67 The Rise and Decline of Nations Mancur Olson Jan 6, 2024
  49. 66 In Defense of Civilization Michael RJ Bonner Nov 28, 2023
  50. 65 Offside Andrei Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman Nov 7, 2023
  51. 64 The Origins of Woke Richard Hanania Oct 19, 2023
  52. 63 Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman Oct 6, 2023
  53. 62 Transformative Experience L. A. Paul Sep 20, 2023
  54. 61 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl Sep 7, 2023
  55. 60 The World Behind the World Erik Hoel Aug 22, 2023
  56. 59 Up From Coservatism Michael Lind Aug 10, 2023
  57. 58 End Times Peter Turchin Jul 21, 2023
  58. 57 The White Album & Miami Joan Didion Jul 7, 2023
  59. 56 The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom Jun 20, 2023
  60. 55 After Liberalism Paul Gottfried May 30, 2023
  61. 54 Outlive Peter Attia May 16, 2023
  62. 53 The End of Equality Mickey Kaus May 2, 2023
  63. 52 The Myth of the Eternal Return Mircea Eliade Apr 11, 2023
  64. 51 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction Roger Scruton Mar 21, 2023
  65. 50 The Mind and the Market Jerry Z. Mueller Mar 7, 2023
  66. 49 By the People Charles Murray Feb 14, 2023
  67. 48 Obedience is Freedom Jacob Phillips Jan 31, 2023
  68. 47 The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Daniel Bell Jan 17, 2023
  69. 46 Western Self-Contempt Benedict Beckeld Dec 19, 2022
  70. 45 The Authenticity Hoax Andrew Potter Dec 4, 2022
  71. 44 Soccernomics Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski Nov 21, 2022
  72. 43 Nostalgia for the Absolute George Steiner Nov 6, 2022
  73. 42 Liberalism and Its Discontents Francis Fukuyama Oct 25, 2022
  74. 41 Red Card Ken Bensinger Oct 9, 2022
  75. 40 Telluria Vladimir Sorokin Sep 24, 2022
  76. 39 The Nineties Chuck Klosterman Sep 11, 2022
  77. 38 The True Believer Eric Hoffer Aug 28, 2022
  78. 37 The United States of Anonymous Jeff Kosseff Aug 16, 2022
  79. 36 The End of the World is Just the Beginning Peter Zeihan Jul 10, 2022
  80. 35 The Machiavellians James Burnham Jun 26, 2022
  81. 34 Bad Religion Ross Douthat Jun 5, 2022
  82. 33 War and the Liberal Conscience May 12, 2022
  83. 32 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche Apr 19, 2022
  84. 31 The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama Mar 27, 2022
  85. 30 This Is Not Propaganda Peter Pomerantsev Mar 6, 2022
  86. 29 Not Born Yesterday Hugo Mercier Feb 20, 2022
  87. 28 Against Everything: Essays Mark Greif Feb 6, 2022
  88. 27 Wanting Luke Burgis Jan 16, 2022
  89. 26 The Sum of Small Things Elizabeth Currid-Halkett Dec 29, 2021
  90. 25 The Uncontrollability of the World Hartmut Rosa Dec 6, 2021
  91. 24 The Evolution of God Robert Wright Nov 22, 2021
  92. 23 The Aristocracy of Talent Adrian Wooldridge Nov 1, 2021
  93. 22 Waking Up Sam Harris Oct 4, 2021
  94. 21 The Benedict Option Rod Dreher. Sep 20, 2021
  95. 20 On Decline Andrew Potter Sep 7, 2021
  96. 19 After Nationalism Samuel Goldman Aug 23, 2021
  97. 18 Isolationism Charles A. Kupchan Jul 26, 2021
  98. 17 Great Founder Theory Samo Burja Jul 12, 2021
  99. 16 Private Truths, Public Lies Timur Kuran Jun 28, 2021
  100. 15 The Revolt of the Masses José Ortega y Gasset Jun 14, 2021
  101. 14 Unsettled Steven E. Koonin May 31, 2021
  102. 13 Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind Hrishikesh Joshi May 17, 2021
  103. 12 The Storm Before the Calm George Friedman May 3, 2021
  104. 11 The Final Pagan Generation Edward J. Watts Apr 19, 2021
  105. 10 On Desire William B. Irvine Apr 5, 2021
  106. 9 Nation of Rebels Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter Mar 22, 2021
  107. 8 Self-Portrait in Black and White Thomas Chatterton Williams Mar 8, 2021
  108. 7 The Culture of Narcissism Christopher Lasch Feb 22, 2021
  109. 6 True Names Vernor Vinge Feb 8, 2021
  110. 5 Whiteshift Eric Kaufmann Jan 15, 2021
  111. 4 Postjournalism Andrey Mir Nov 13, 2020
  112. 3 Enlightenment's Wake John Gray Oct 23, 2020
  113. 2 History Has Begun Bruno Maçães Oct 4, 2020
  114. 1 The Jungle Grows Back Robert Kagan Sep 15, 2020