Silicon Snake Oil
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Silicon Snake Oil is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 10, 2025 and January 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Silicon Snake Oil was a 1995 book by scientist Clifford Stoll”; “Clifford Stoll (mentioned for his book Silicon Snake Oil)“. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, Bernie Sanders, Clifford Stoll.
Metadata
- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 10, 2025
- Last seen: January 05, 2026
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Related Pages
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- Bernie Sanders (2 shared issues)
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- Clifford Stoll (2 shared issues)
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- Dustin Moskovitz (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- 100 Above The Park (1 shared issues)
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- 2024 Post-Mortem Of Neoreaction (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- @StatisticUrban (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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- Abba Eban (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
53: Silicon Snake Oil was a 1995 book by scientist Clifford Stoll arguing that the Internet was being overhyped (h/t @IsaacKing314). Highlights, courtesy of @cyph3rf0x:
3: Astronomer/engineer/writer Clifford Stoll (mentioned on last month’s links post for his book Silicon Snake Oil, but also famous for cybersecurity adventures and Klein bottle making) will be doing a Q&A at Mox in SF on January 13, see here for details/signup.