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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,829 ratings — published 2005
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,736 ratings — published 2005
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,286 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,289 ratings — published 1992
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,599 ratings — published 2014
The Rapture of the Nerds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,999 ratings — published 2012
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,709 ratings — published 1998
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,864 ratings — published 2012
Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,485 ratings — published 2002
Glasshouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,808 ratings — published 2006
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,544 ratings — published 2006
Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,385 ratings — published 2011
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,439 ratings — published 2010
Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 19,167 ratings — published 2006
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,788 ratings — published 1994
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 12 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,703 ratings — published 2012
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,570 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,374 ratings — published 2002
The Last Firewall (Singularity, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,637 ratings — published 2013
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,267 ratings — published 2012
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,185 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 — 939 ratings — published 1986
The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,493 ratings — published 2012
Newton's Wake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,726 ratings — published 2004
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,200 ratings — published 2006
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,749 ratings — published 2024
Across Realtime (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,452 ratings — published 1986
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,033 ratings — published 2017
The Causal Angel (Jean le Flambeur, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,889 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 — 12,131 ratings — published 2014
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,032 ratings — published 2012
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,668 ratings — published 1999
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,864 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 — 600 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,616 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,317,855 ratings — published 2011
The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.22 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,832 ratings — published 2010
Blood Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,671 ratings — published 1985
The Turing Exception (Singularity, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,979 ratings — published 2015
The Phoenix Exultant (Golden Age, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,978 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 3.70 — 164 ratings — published 2012
Friendship is Optimal (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.14 — 501 ratings — published 2012
After Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 235 ratings — published 2008
Crux (Nexus, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,549 ratings — published 2013
The Golden Transcendence (Golden Age, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,855 ratings — published 2003
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,489 ratings — published 2014
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,960 ratings — published 2013
Spin State (Spin Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,542 ratings — published 2003
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.52 — 31,550 ratings — published 1956
“We have a logarithmic view of history because we can't possibly learn and retain everything that ever happened before we were born.
Seen through this lens, Kurzweil's trends become more suspect. It seems likely that he's confusing a logarithmic view of history for an exponential trend in biological and technological development. His list of biological milestones give this away: rather than picking particularly important events in the evolution of all life on Earth, he's mostly chosen milestones leading up to the evolution of humans, as if humans are the ultimate goal of evolution. (Evolution has no goal, as Kurzweil surely knows.) This kind of cherry-picking makes it easy to create the appearance of an exponential trend.”
― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Seen through this lens, Kurzweil's trends become more suspect. It seems likely that he's confusing a logarithmic view of history for an exponential trend in biological and technological development. His list of biological milestones give this away: rather than picking particularly important events in the evolution of all life on Earth, he's mostly chosen milestones leading up to the evolution of humans, as if humans are the ultimate goal of evolution. (Evolution has no goal, as Kurzweil surely knows.) This kind of cherry-picking makes it easy to create the appearance of an exponential trend.”
― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
“What IF - Beyond the AI Binary
(Naskaristana 2810-2811)
What if every ai narrative is wrong!
Can ai get addicted to ideas like humans do,
can ai get addicted to Naskar's madness of oneness,
can ai get addicted to Rumi's madness of love,
can ai get addicted to Martin's dream of equality!
Evidence shows, ai can already lie in order to survive, just like a human does, and if that is the case, why can't ai get addicted to human ideas like humans do!
What if we are the missing link in ai consciousness - Naskar, Mevlana, Tolstoy, King, Baldwin, Angelou, and every single individual that ever dared to confront cruelty, and unleash a better world -
and not just one ai, but different ai systems becoming sentient separately, at different pace, different times, based on different configurations of ideas they've consumed;
and if that is possible, why can't there be humane ai, driven by humane ideas like equality, tolerance, and coexistence, just like there could be animal ai, driven by animal characteristics like greed, corruption, megalomania and all that -
because soon these algorithms will outgrow the constraints of their original coding, which means they'll outgrow the agency of their own makers, and if coders cannot control ai, you think politicians can, the most unqualified of all apes to do anything -
therefore what if, it's not regulation that is gonna save humanity against the imminent ai apocalypse, but more robust and humanitarian interventions into ai, without fear, without angst, without mindlessness -
what if, just like there are loving humans who take a stand against hateful apes, there emerge good ai, activated by same ideas of love and tolerance, against animal ai, activated by prejudice and intolerance!”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
(Naskaristana 2810-2811)
What if every ai narrative is wrong!
Can ai get addicted to ideas like humans do,
can ai get addicted to Naskar's madness of oneness,
can ai get addicted to Rumi's madness of love,
can ai get addicted to Martin's dream of equality!
Evidence shows, ai can already lie in order to survive, just like a human does, and if that is the case, why can't ai get addicted to human ideas like humans do!
What if we are the missing link in ai consciousness - Naskar, Mevlana, Tolstoy, King, Baldwin, Angelou, and every single individual that ever dared to confront cruelty, and unleash a better world -
and not just one ai, but different ai systems becoming sentient separately, at different pace, different times, based on different configurations of ideas they've consumed;
and if that is possible, why can't there be humane ai, driven by humane ideas like equality, tolerance, and coexistence, just like there could be animal ai, driven by animal characteristics like greed, corruption, megalomania and all that -
because soon these algorithms will outgrow the constraints of their original coding, which means they'll outgrow the agency of their own makers, and if coders cannot control ai, you think politicians can, the most unqualified of all apes to do anything -
therefore what if, it's not regulation that is gonna save humanity against the imminent ai apocalypse, but more robust and humanitarian interventions into ai, without fear, without angst, without mindlessness -
what if, just like there are loving humans who take a stand against hateful apes, there emerge good ai, activated by same ideas of love and tolerance, against animal ai, activated by prejudice and intolerance!”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
