Robby Soave
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 24
- Latest publication
- Sep 18, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Reason Magazine
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Is Effective Altruism Really a Doom Cult? (opens the original)
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On the Freed Up podcast, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss effective altruism, Sydney Sweeney, and the UT Austin student body.
AI doom is misguided, not a psyop (opens the original)
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Did you see the news? Everybody is freaking out about artificial intelligence, which poses a significant likelihood of killing everyone on the planet once it achieves superintelligence…at least according to a bunch of tech folks who might have their own reasons for stoking mass panic. This media frenzy has led to blowback from a bunch of people, including Elon Musk, who say AI doomers are engaged in a "psyop"—in other words, they are using inauthentic means to manufacture a nonexistent controver
Trump's Bribe, AI Doom Psyop, and the Rapture (opens the original)
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Trump's $5,000 bribe, stay-at-home moms, car insurance beefs, AI doom, 9/11 memories, Zelda rumors, rom-coms, and the Rapture—Freed Up somehow fits it all into one episode.
Lindsay Clancy, Heehaw the Donkey, and New Magneto Origins (opens the original)
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Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the stalled jury deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s case and the police killing of Heehaw.
This 'Wired' article about AI detection software was really mean (opens the original)
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Tech CEOs and the mainstream journalists who cover them are famously hostile toward one another. For many in the tech world, their default perspective is that reporters who write for places like The New York Times are inclined to be excessively negative and to highlight relatively trivial problems with the tech. And they have a point: There's a certain kind of pessimism, even excessive doomsaying, in mainstream coverage of social media. You are reading Free Media from Robby Soave and Reason. Get
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