What’s up with all the tech titan manifestos? (See: Zuckerberg, Altman, Andreessen, et al)

Mark Zuckerberg is the most recent contributor to a shelf that is beginning to sag under the weight of its tomes. Indeed, at this point it is almost easier to point to the tech titans who haven’t written a manifesto than to list the ones who have. The genre includes Sam Altman’s The Intelligence Age and The Gentle Singularity, Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace and The Adolescence of Technology, Marc Andreessen’s questionably poetic Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Leopold Aschenbrenner’s absurdl...