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Singularity
Books about the theorized technological singularity.
Note: There is also a ŷ group by the same title. The bookshelf in that group is not the same as this list, although the two should be largely congruent.
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The technological singularity is a theoretical future point that takes place during a period of unprecedented technological progress sometime after the creation of a Superintelligence.This bookshelf contains both fiction and non-fiction, some dealing directly with the topic, some indirectly.
Note: There is also a ŷ group by the same title. The bookshelf in that group is not the same as this list, although the two should be largely congruent.
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Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying only on the texts of notes passed back and forth.
Turing replaced the woman with a computer. Can the judge tell which is the man? If not, is the computer conscious? Intelligent? Does it deserve equal rights?
It's impossible for us to know what role the torture Turing was enduring at the time played i
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― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget

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Let me tell you as a brain scientist and a computer engineering dropout - transhumanism is to brain computer interface, what nuclear weapons are to nuclear physics.
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― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
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