Silicon Valley has a Dostoevsky problem

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Silicon Valley has a Dostoevsky problem

Blaze Media · Oct 18, 2026, 1:30 PM UTC

Earlier this year, something startling happened: Leading technologists at the AI frontier turned fretfully for guidance to a devout Orthodox Christian. A Silicon Valley book club tackled Fyodor Dostoevsky’s notoriously daunting novel “Demons” (also translated as “The Possessed”).…

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