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Transhumanism Anonymous 09/29/14 (Mon) 07:24:40 No.83

Can anyone recommend books about transhumanism? So far, I have read
>The Singularity is near
>the Eclipse Phase Rulebook
and some sources from the intertubes.

So, any recommendations?

Anonymous 10/17/14 (Fri) 20:22:13 No.189

Vernor Vinge and Greg Egan are the two writers you should look into.
Also prominent hard SF writers like benford, Bear and Niven have written stuff that could be called early/borderline transhumanist, same goes for a few nuWave writers like Dick.

Anonymous 11/01/14 (Sat) 09:56:21 No.196

>>83
Accelerando by Charles Stross. Very good reading:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html

Anonymous 11/01/14 (Sat) 20:15:36 No.197

Kinda eh in places, but Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect may interest you:
http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

Anonymous 11/06/14 (Thu) 20:39:06 No.211

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Thanks for the recommendations, everyone! Will check them out once I'm done with "Consider Phlebas".

Anonymous 04/01/15 (Wed) 01:45:51 No.244

>>83
Nonfiction:

Ed Regis - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
Hans Moravec - Mind Children, Robot
J. Storrs Hall - Beyond AI
Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom (editors) - Human Enhancement
Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky - The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
James Barrat - Our Final Invention
Stuart Armstrong - Smarter Than Us
Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence

Fiction:

Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men
A. E. van Vogt - World of Null-A
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey (ignore sequels)
Bruce Sterling - Shaper/Mechanist series
Ted Chiang - Understand (short story), probably other stories
Linda Nagata
John C. Wright - The Golden Age (trilogy), Count to a Trillion (in-progress series)
Richard K. Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs series (cyberpunk)
Marshall Brain - Manna
Alastair Reynolds - Thousandth Night/House of Suns

Disclaimer: most of the above are books I haven't personally read.

Anonymous 04/01/15 (Wed) 01:47:28 No.245

>>244
Also, possibly:

Nonfiction: Eliezer Yudkowsky - Rationality: From AI to Zombies (if mainly for the "fun theory" sequence and the fact that so many Internet transhumanists are likely to have read it or parts of it)
Fiction: Sam Hughes

Anonymous 04/01/15 (Wed) 01:59:15 No.247

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Also:

Fiction: Isaac Asimov - The Last Question

Anonymous 09/16/15 (Wed) 06:00:02 No.265

>>197

I have read it by now. I was impressed, a very good dissection of the three laws of robotics and an interesting portrayal of a Seed AI. A bit like a more benevolent version of AM, from "I have no mouth and I must scream".

Anonymous 09/16/15 (Wed) 06:19:32 No.268

>>244

Can someone provide download links, pretty please? Also, add Echopraxia to it, the book dealt with a lot of transhumanist ideas, as well as with the theme of baseline humans becoming obsolete.

Anonymous 09/18/15 (Fri) 13:52:48 No.297

>>83

>The Singularity is near

Do not recommend that book for anything serious, great for laughs though.

Anonymous 09/18/15 (Fri) 15:59:59 No.300

>>297

I've read that Kurzweil is wrong more often than he's not, and his graphs really look like he created them during breakfast. Still fairly entertaining, though.

Anonymous 09/21/15 (Mon) 06:21:13 No.329

The first two books of the Revelation Space series are GOAT