things worth reading

books

• Ender's Game & Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card
• Dune & Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Confessions — St. Augustine of Hippo
• Foundation — Isaac Asimov
• Giovanni's Room — James Baldwin
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect — Roger Williams
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• 1984 — George Orwell
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• The Kingdom — Emmanuel Carrère
• New Atlantis — Francis Bacon
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
• Rerum Novarum — Pope Leo XIII
• Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
• Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

articles and essays

• The Copernican Revolution from the Inside — Jacob Lagerros
• As We May Think — Vannevar Bush
• A History of the Future 2025-2040 — Rudolf Laine
• Galaxy Brain Resistance — Vitalik Buterin
• Keep The Future Human — Anthony Aguirre
• My Techno-Optimism — Vitalik Buterin
• The Technology of Liberalism — Rudolf Laine
• The Use of Knowledge in Society — Friedrich Hayek
• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup — Scott Alexander
• AI and Jobs: Leverage Without Labor — Anton Leicht
• AI and Leviathan — Samuel Hammond
• How Much Economic Growth from AI Should We Expect, How Soon? — Inference Magazine
• Cities and Ambition — Paul Graham
• The Silicon Valley Canon — Tanner Greer

papers

• Open Character Training — Sharan Maiya et al.
• AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games — Cassidy Laidlaw et al.
• A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment — Amanda Askell et al.
• Emergent Misalignment — Jan Betley et al.
• The Void — Nostalgebraist
• The AI Triad and What It Means for National Security Strategy — Ben Buchanan
• The Transformative Potential of Artificial Intelligence — Ross Gruetzemacher & Jess Whittlestone
• Gradual Disempowerment — Jan Kulveit, Raymond Douglas et al.
• Defining Win Conditions — William A. Gamson
• Scenarios for the Transition to AGI — Anton Korinek & Donghyun Suh