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I'll update this note with additional suggested reading as the salon approaches.
Other blog posts by Holden Karnofsky:
- https://blog.givewell.org/2014/06/10/sequence-thinking-vs-cluster-thinking/
- https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/worldview-diversification
Misc:
- Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Chapter 15: Crunch Time
- Stuart Brand: The Clock of the Long Now (some highlights: https://notes.pjh.is/people/Stewart+Brand)
- https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/posners_pragmat.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar
- Daniel Eth: [The UK Government seems convinced that AGI risk is real.](https://twitter.com/daniel_eth/status/1450365626908758018?t=uYXpdF6NNrVvgKO84S9L4g&s=19)
Stuff I have not yet read but might:
- Later chapters of The Age of Em, Robin Hanson
- Azeem Azhar's recent book: https://www.charterworks.com/exponential-age-azeem-azhar-book/
- Niall Ferguson: Doom
- Popper's (seemingly bad) anti-futurism arguments?
Maybe go back to:
- Fukuyama End of History
- Nonzero Robert Wright
- Stewart Brand?
- Tyler Cowen