Ancestors

Written by Zach Weinersmith on 2024-11-01 at 10:34

Anyone read Bostrom's new book? I thought "Superintelligence" was a bit out there, but it was a pretty straightforward book about philosophy of AI. "Deep Utopia" feels like a philosopher having a stroke. I don't know that I've ever read a more confusing and repetitive book.

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Toot

Written by Charlie Stross on 2024-11-01 at 11:57

@ZachWeinersmith I haven't seen it yet, but I hear you ands raise you 1986's "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler...

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Descendants

Written by Larry on 2024-11-01 at 12:04

@cstross @ZachWeinersmith

The Eternal Golden Braid deserves an Honourable Mention.

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Written by John Gordon on 2024-11-01 at 12:41

@quoidian @cstross @ZachWeinersmith I ready the Braid thing very closely! I was in Thailand then. I’ve often thought of it.

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Written by Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 on 2024-11-01 at 13:34

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Perhaps also A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram.

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Written by MaxTheFox on 2024-11-02 at 09:55

@nyrath @quoidian @cstross @ZachWeinersmith Wolfram is unfortunately a bit of a crackpot, and did some skeevy things with patents etc.

His book is... interesting but not well regarded in cellular-automata-study circles.

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