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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,911 ratings — published 2005
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 22,949 ratings — published 2005
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,385 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 69,020 ratings — published 1992
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,893 ratings — published 2014
The Rapture of the Nerds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.39 — 4,017 ratings — published 2012
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,734 ratings — published 1998
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,888 ratings — published 2012
Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,513 ratings — published 2004
Glasshouse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,893 ratings — published 2006
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,932 ratings — published 2006
Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,415 ratings — published 2011
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,638 ratings — published 2010
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,727 ratings — published 2012
Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,261 ratings — published 2006
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,178 ratings — published 1994
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,048 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,386 ratings — published 2002
The Last Firewall (Singularity, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,648 ratings — published 2013
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,394 ratings — published 2012
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,233 ratings — published 1986
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Anchor Library of Science)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.18 — 942 ratings — published 1986
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,132 ratings — published 2024
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,317 ratings — published 2017
The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,616 ratings — published 2012
Newton's Wake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,731 ratings — published 2004
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,362 ratings — published 2006
Across Realtime (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,457 ratings — published 1986
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,658 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,257 ratings — published 2011
The Causal Angel (Jean le Flambeur, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,945 ratings — published 2014
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,145 ratings — published 2014
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,059 ratings — published 2012
The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.22 — 158 ratings — published 2010
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,910 ratings — published 1999
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,187 ratings — published 1997
The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 601 ratings — published 2016
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,103 ratings — published 2010
Blood Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,930 ratings — published 1985
The Turing Exception (Singularity, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,986 ratings — published 2015
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,986 ratings — published 2013
The Phoenix Exultant (Golden Age, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,988 ratings — published 2003
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.71 — 163 ratings — published 2012
Friendship is Optimal (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.14 — 506 ratings — published 2012
After Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 236 ratings — published 2008
Crux (Nexus, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,593 ratings — published 2013
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,391 ratings — published 2018
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,865 ratings — published 2014
The Golden Transcendence (Golden Age, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,861 ratings — published 2003
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,856 ratings — published 2014
“The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.”
― The Elephant Vanishes
― The Elephant Vanishes
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't mean that in a pejorative way. I'm thinking of the earliest incarnations of Marxism, for instance, before
Stalinism and Maoism killed millions.
Movements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific understanding of the world. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the weird, manipulative fantasies of religions. And yet both invented their own fantasies that were just as weird.
The same thing is happening again. A self-proclaimed materialist movement that attempts to base itself on science starts to look like a religion rather quickly. It soon presents its own eschatology and its own revelations about what is really going on - portentous events that no one but the initiated can appreciate. The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
Stalinism and Maoism killed millions.
Movements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific understanding of the world. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the weird, manipulative fantasies of religions. And yet both invented their own fantasies that were just as weird.
The same thing is happening again. A self-proclaimed materialist movement that attempts to base itself on science starts to look like a religion rather quickly. It soon presents its own eschatology and its own revelations about what is really going on - portentous events that no one but the initiated can appreciate. The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
