reality + david chalmers. kinda boring kinda interesting. the code breaker walter isaacson. immortality inc chip walter. anything nick bostrom or david pearce related.

I know you said no fiction but...

Robopocalypse is a fun fiction book. It does explore possibilities for an Ai future.

Scifi in general, even though it's fiction, often explores future technologies and their possible implications long before they become a thing, and in a fun way.

But as far as non-fiction, I'd recommend Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence.

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I have Robopocalypse and already have a ton of sci-fi. I'm particularly fond of Peter F Hamiltons work.

Stop reading so much.

Taking in information is step 1. to making a reality like the singularity happen. The truth is, we have to work to bring the things described in those philosophies to life.

You're on here, so you already have potential. Go out and build something that you think is important to making the singularity happen.

I'm not smart enough for that. Just curious.

Baaah come on.

If you saw the rest of the world you’d realize how smart you are.

There aren’t so many people thinking about this stuff you know.

Why don't you try to read survey papers? They don't add anything new but they summarise a whole year or more of activity in a subfield and are pretty high-level overview.

For example, this one is nice: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06091.pdf

I really like Life 3.0, I think it's still on youtube

https://www.audible.com/author/Jeremy-Rifkin/B000APENQ2 ,

I haven't heard - https://www.audible.com/author/Kai-Fu-Lee/B001K8QZ8C , but I've seen some speeches, and he seems to have a solid perspective.

four futures - peter frase,

& in the same vein - Manna by Marshall Brain (non-magic fiction) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RhLIk8Hy20&list=PLZcXL8KepLVsm5w_NnXI3hMvjPCBtl21P

and if you can read - https://marshallbrain.com/mars

reality + has some mindboggling insights

I understand your point but the most successful people in the world actually say that they read many many more books than average people and audiobooks are awesome for taking advantage of dead time.

>I really like Life 3.0, I think it's still on youtube

what why did I pay $15 to get it on my kindle lol

well, some of that went to a good guy doing good things - https://futureoflife.org/ , so thank you.

but yeah, check youtube first.. in theory, we should be seeing more good things (especially good online education) free to the public.. if we're doing it right.. right?

That’s true, no doubt about that.

But time is always ticking.

Talking especially for audiobooks. You can't do much cycling or walking otherwise

That’s true good point. I’m taking this advice.