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Adam Becker thinks the root cause of the groups' convergence was their shared belief in a world revealed primarily through science fiction.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“But the root cause of it, I think, is this sort of shared belief in a world as revealed.”
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