--- Version: 0.0.5 Last updated: 2021-10-20 --- 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