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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,383 ratings — published 2005
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,062 ratings — published 2005
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,988 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,643 ratings — published 1992
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,567 ratings — published 2014
The Rapture of the Nerds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,942 ratings — published 2012
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,619 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 — 7,727 ratings — published 2012
Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,388 ratings — published 2002
Glasshouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,587 ratings — published 2006
Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,286 ratings — published 2011
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,571 ratings — published 2010
Rainbows End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,810 ratings — published 2006
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,594 ratings — published 2006
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,472 ratings — published 1994
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 12 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,595 ratings — published 2012
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,082 ratings — published 2006
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,345 ratings — published 2002
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,018 ratings — published 1986
The Last Firewall (Singularity, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,597 ratings — published 2013
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,864 ratings — published 2012
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Anchor Library of Science)
by (shelved 9 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.18 — 931 ratings — published 1986
The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,140 ratings — published 2012
Newton's Wake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,703 ratings — published 2004
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,803 ratings — published 2006
Across Realtime (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,425 ratings — published 1986
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,029 ratings — published 2017
The Causal Angel (Jean le Flambeur, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,697 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 — 12,083 ratings — published 2014
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,991 ratings — published 2012
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,759 ratings — published 1999
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,841 ratings — published 1997
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,482 ratings — published 2024
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,562 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,218,758 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 4.20 — 145 ratings — published 2010
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,028 ratings — published 2010
Blood Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,687 ratings — published 1985
The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.84 — 595 ratings — published 2016
The Turing Exception (Singularity, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,941 ratings — published 2015
The Phoenix Exultant (Golden Age, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,963 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 3.69 — 164 ratings — published 2012
Friendship is Optimal (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.15 — 482 ratings — published 2012
After Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 232 ratings — published 2008
Crux (Nexus, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,397 ratings — published 2013
The Golden Transcendence (Golden Age, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,847 ratings — published 2003
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,287 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 — 3,872 ratings — published 2013
Spin State (Spin Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,519 ratings — published 2003
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as singularity)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,215 ratings — published 1956
“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
“Age of AI (The Sonnet)
Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms
grow bigger, and minds get smaller,
where freedom is the new prison,
character retreats as cave dweller.
Welcome to the age of AI,
where deceit is the new creativity,
where hate is a human right,
malinformation is a legal industry.
Welcome to the age of AI,
where algorithms are still nonsentient,
but so are the people that use them,
mindlessness is trend of the new sapiens.
Welcome to the age of AI, where global goals
are still a dream, only more distant.
Prove me wrong - I beg of you -
Stand up and behave, a proper Sapiens!”
― The Humanitarian Dictator
Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms
grow bigger, and minds get smaller,
where freedom is the new prison,
character retreats as cave dweller.
Welcome to the age of AI,
where deceit is the new creativity,
where hate is a human right,
malinformation is a legal industry.
Welcome to the age of AI,
where algorithms are still nonsentient,
but so are the people that use them,
mindlessness is trend of the new sapiens.
Welcome to the age of AI, where global goals
are still a dream, only more distant.
Prove me wrong - I beg of you -
Stand up and behave, a proper Sapiens!”
― The Humanitarian Dictator
