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ArsT: One doesn't usually think of this community [Silicon Valley folks] as being anti-science. Yet in your book you argue that these futuristic visions aren't based on sound science at all, which seems paradoxical.

Becker: They actually have a great contempt for expertise. They don't see it as necessary because they think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived [...] If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful?

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/