Preface to Life 3.0 by @tegmark - scarily simple 📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge; well the galaxy there has different zones and the outer one is post singularity!

I see the Culture series has already been mentioned. The Dune series is a great anti-AGI counterfactual. @aptshadow's Children Of... series does not have the presence or otherwise of AGI as its main focus, but it's fascinating in starting off with the difference bt animal & 1/2

I see the Culture series has already been mentioned. The Dune series is a great anti-AGI counterfactual. @aptshadow's Children Of... series does not have the presence or otherwise of AGI as its main focus, but it's fascinating in starting off with the difference bt animal & 1/2

I see the Culture series has already been mentioned. The Dune series is a great anti-AGI counterfactual. @aptshadow's Children Of... series does not have the presence or otherwise of AGI as its main focus, but it's fascinating in starting off with the difference bt animal & 1/2

Pretty much anything by Iain M. Banks, particularly Excession

Kind of the opposite...but...I don't think there's AGI in The Expanse....which is my go to "kinda real space economy"

I read this book in 2015/16 and a lot of its ideas have stuck with me. It's a bunch of scientists and philosophers writing short essays on AI.