If Anyone Builds it Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All – Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
One can think that AI isn’t going to come alive anytime soon and still think that it is a very bad idea to build an AI
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do – Erik J. Larson
AI isn’t going to reach the Kurzweilian dream any time soon
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow should be required reading for anyone living through the tragedy that is modern times.
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning – Justin E. H. Smith
An argument that we should look at the internet in a slightly different way.
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson
Parmy Olson is talented, but not even she can make the AI race interesting to me.
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Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson
A waste of time which you shouldnt read
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Critical Mass – Daniel Suarez
The sequel to the excellent Delta-v
It makes me wonder where this story is going.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
To have read this a decade ago…
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The Singularity is Near – Ray Kurzweil
Nearly 20 years old now, this book of pseudo religion does not hold up all that well.
Failures in Polymathy 