Singularity Activist Resources

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Please consider including your Singularity activist resources. (Help is especially needed for programming material.) Resources are in alphabetical order, though this could be changed to a recommended reading order.

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Introductions

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• Activism and Futurism (SIAI)
• The Impact of the Singularity (SIAI)
• The Long-Term Singularity Effort (SIAI)
• Singularity (SIAI)
• Smartness (SIAI)

Advanced Technology

• Human Reproductive Cloning from the Perspective of the Future (Nick Bostrom)
• Uploading (SIAI)

Artificial Intelligence

• 24 Definitions of Friendly AI (SIAI)
• Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)
• General Intelligence (SIAI)
• Seed AI (SIAI)
• Why AI? (SIAI)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (Leda Cosmides and John Tooby)

Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology (SIAI)

Programming

• How to Think like a Computer Scientist (Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, and Chris Meyers)

Risks of Technology

• A Primer on the Doomsday Argument (Nick Bostrom)

Transhumanism

• The Transhumanist Declaration (World Transhumanist Association)
• What is Transhumanism? (Nick Bostrom)

Articles

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• The Coming Technological Singularity (Vernor Vinge)
• Future Shock Levels (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• Interview with John Smart (John Smart and Sander Olson)
• The Singularitarian Principles (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil (Ray Kurzweil and John Brockman)
• Tearing Towards the Spike (Damien Broderick)
• What is the Singularity? (SIAI)
• Why Work Toward the Singularity? (SIAI)

Artificial Intelligence

• Features of Friendly AI (SIAI)
• What is Friendly AI? (SIAI)
• What is General Intelligence? (SIAI)
• What is Seed AI? (SIAI)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

Nanotechnology

• It’s a Small, Small, Small, Small World (Ralph Merkle)
• The Gray Goo Problem (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
• Molecular Nanotechnology (Zyvex)
• Robots in the Bloodstream: The Promise of Nanomedicine (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
• Say “Ah!” (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
• Self-Replication and Nanotechnology (Zyvex)

Programming

Risks of Technology

• The Bioweaponeers (Richard Preston)
• The Demon in the Freezer (Richard Preston)
• Embrace, Don't Relinquish, the Future (Max More)
• Joy, to the World: A Techno-Celebrity's Childish Manifesto (Virginia Postrel)
• One-Half of a Manifesto (Jaron Lanier)
• One-Half of an Argument (Ray Kurzweil)
• Postscript Re: Ray Kurzweil (Jaron Lanier)
• Promise and Peril: Deeply Intertwined Poles of Twenty-First Century Technology (Ray Kurzweil)
• Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us (Bill Joy)

Transhumanism

• Transhumanism: A Futurist Philosophy (Max More)
• Transhumanism: The Convergence of Evolution, Humanism, and IT (Jos de Mul)

FAQs

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• The Meaning of Life FAQ (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• Adaptive AI FAQ (Peter Voss)
• Singularity Institute FAQ (SIAI)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ (Edward Hagen)

Nanotechnology

• Molecular Nanotechnology FAQ (Foresight Institute)
• Nanomedicine FAQ (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)

Programming

• Python FAQ Wizard1.0.3 (Guido@python.org)
• The Object Oriented FAQ (Robert John Hathaway III)
• AI programming languages FAQ (Mark Kantrowitz)

Risks of Technology

• The Doomsday Argument FAQ (Nick Bostrom)

Transhumanism

• Extropy Institute Transhumanist FAQ (Harvey Newstrom et al.)
• The Transhumanist FAQ (Nick Bostrom et al.)

Papers

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• The Law of Accelerating Returns (Ray Kurzweil)
• The Origin, Nature, and Implications of “Moore’s Law” (Bob Schaller)
• Staring into the Singularity (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

Advanced Technology

• The Simulation Argument: Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? (Nick Bostrom)

Artificial Intelligence

• The Church-Turing Thesis (Jack Copeland)
• Creating Friendly AI: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures (SIAI)
• Ethics for Machines (J. Storrs Hall)
• Ethics for Transhumans: A Reply to Josh Hall’s “Ethics for Machines” (Peter Voss)
• How Long Before Superintelligence? (Nick Bostrom)
• Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI (SIAI)
• When Will Computer Hardware Match the Human Brain? (Hans Moravec)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• Facing Up to the Problems of Consciousness (David Chalmers)

Nanotechnology

• Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute)
• Forward to the Future: Nanotechnology and Regulatory Policy (Glenn H. Reynolds)
• Many Future Nanomachines (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
• Molecular Nanotechnology and the World System (Thomas McCarthy)
• Nanotechnology and International Security (Mark Gubrud)
• Nanotechnology and Life Extension (Chris Phoenix)
• On Physics, Fundamentals, and Nanorobots (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
• Open Sourcing Nanotechnology Research and Development: Issues and Opportunities (Bryan Bruns)
• Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
• The Weapon of Openness (Arthur Kantrowitz)

Programming

Risks of Technology

• Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards (Nick Bostrom)
• The Great Filter: Are We Almost Past It? (Robin Hanson)
• Relinquishment or Regulation: Dealing with Apocalyptic Threats (James Hughes)

Transhumanism

• A Transhumanist Perspective on Human Genetic Enhancements (Nick Bostrom)
• Democratic Transhumanism (James Hughes)
• Dynamic Optimism: An Extropian Cognitive-Emotional Virtue (Max More)
• The Extropian Principles: A Transhumanist Declaration (Max More)
• Transhumanist Ethics (Nick Bostrom)

Newsletters

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• Accelerating Times

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

Nanotechnology

• Foresight Update

Programming

Transhumanism

• Exponent
• Immortality Institute Newsletter

Books

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• The Spike (Damien Broderick)

Advanced Technology

• Our Molecular Future (Douglas Mulhall)
• Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future (Gregory Stock)

Artificial Intelligence

• The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil)
• AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual (Arthur T. Murray)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind (Hans Moravec)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Jerome H. Barkow et al.)
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
• Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications (Charles Crawford and Dennis Krebs eds.)
• How the Mind Works (Steven Pinker)
• Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Geoffrey Miller)
• The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett)
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Robert A. Wilson and Frank Keil)
• The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Robert Wright)
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Robert Wright)
• The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Matt Ridley)
• Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach (Steven Gaulin and Donald McBurney)
• The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and Brain (Terrence Deacon)
• The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (Melvin Konner)

Fiction

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (Robert M. Pirsig)

Nanotechnology

• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (K. Eric Drexler)
• Nanomedicine, Volume 1: Basic Capabilities (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
• Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (K. Eric Drexler)
• Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea (Mark Ratner and Daniel Ratner)

Programming

Science Fiction

• A Fire upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
• Marooned in Realtime (Vernor Vinge)
• True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (Vernor Vinge et al.)
• Diaspora (Greg Egan)
• Permutation City (Greg Egan)
• Blood Music (Greg Bear)
• Aristoi (Walter John Williams)
• Neverness (David Zindell)
• Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)

Spirituality

• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life (Shantideva)
• The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (The Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler)
• Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World (Lama Surya Das)
• Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life (Lama Surya Das)
• Ethics for the New Millennium (The Dalai Lama)
• How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life (The Dalai Lama)
• Pay Attention for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart: The Buddhist Path of Kindness (Sylvia Boorstein)
• The Tao is Silent (Robert M. Smullyan)
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Mitch Albom)

Transhumanism

• Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge (Ed Regis)

Online Books

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change (Peter Russell)

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• The Age of Intelligent Machines (Ray Kurzweil et al.)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? (Ray Kurzweil et al.)
• The Global Brain (Howard Bloom)
• HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and Reality (David Stork ed.)
• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines (Kevin Kelly)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

Fiction

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (Robert M. Pirsig)

Nanotechnology

• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (K. Eric Drexler)
• Nanomedicine, Volume 1: Basic Capabilities (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)

Programming

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (H. Abelson, G. Sussman and J. Sussman)
• The Java Tutorial
• Dive into Python (Mark Pilgrim)

Science Fiction

• Earthweb (Marc Stiegler)
• True Names (Vernor Vinge)

Spirituality

• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life (Shantideva)

Transhumanism

Websites

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• ExI Resource Directory: Singularity Websites
• H2G2: The Vingean Singularity
• John Robb’s Singularity Weblog
• Kurzweil AI.Net
• The Low Beyond
• Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• SingularityWatch.com

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• Adaptive AI
• AI in the News
• AI Topics
• Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute
• ExI Resource Directory: Artificial Intelligence Websites
• Generation5

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Cogprints: Cognitive Science's EPrint Archive
• Cogprints: Evolutionary Psychology
• Darwin and Darwinism: Evolutionary Psychology
• Human Behavior and Evolution Society
• The Human Nature Review
• Online Papers on Consciousness and the Philosophy of Mind

Nanotechnology

• ExI Resource Directory: Nanotechnology Websites
• Foresight Institute
• Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
• Nanodot
• Nanotechnology Now
• Zyvex

Programming

Transhumanism

• Betterhumans
• ExI Resource Directory: Transhumanism Websites
• Extropy Institute
• Extropy Online
• Journal of Evolution and Technology
• Transhumanity
• World Transhumanist Association

Multimedia

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• Accelerating Intelligence: Where Will Technology Lead Us? (Ray Kurzweil)
• Digital Gaia (Vernor Vinge)
• Fresh Air Interview with Vernor Vinge (Vernor Vinge and Neil Conan)
• The Politics of The Spike (Damien Broderick and James Hughes)
• The Singularity is Near (Ray Kurzweil)
• The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil (DSL) (Ray Kurzweil and John Brockman)
• The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil (Modem) (Ray Kurzweil and John Brockman)
• The World Will Get Weirder, the End of the Human Era (Damien Broderick)

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• BioFuture vs. MachineFuture: Audience Q&A (Senior Associate Foresight Gathering)
• BioFuture vs. MachineFuture: Debate (Ray Kurzweil and Gregory Stock)
• BioFuture vs. MachineFuture: Gregory Stock’s Presentation (Gregory Stock)
• BioFuture vs. MachineFuture: Ray Kurzweil’s Presentation (Ray Kurzweil)
• Changesurfer Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer Yudkowsky and James Hughes)
• The Human Machine Merger (Ray Kurzweil)
• Intelligence, Computer and Human (Howard Gardner and Ray Kurzweil)
• Spiritual Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
• Technology in the 21st Century: An Imminent Intimate Merger (Ray Kurzweil)

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
• The Descent of Man (ABC Radio)

Nanotechnology

• The War on Terrorism: What Does it Mean for Science (K. Eric Drexler)

Programming

Risks of Technology

• Consequences of Technology (Bill Joy)
• Exploding Technology (Bill Joy)
• Genomics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics (Bill Joy)
• The Impact of Technology on the Future of Humanity (Bill Joy)
• Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? (Douglas H. Hofstadter et al.)
• Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us (Bill Joy)

Transhumanism

• Changesurfer Interview with Max More (Max More and James Hughes)
• Changesurfer Interview with Nick Bostrom (Nick Bostrom and James Hughes)
• Changesurfer Radio

Other

• Eliezer's second appearance on changesurfer radio (Eliezer Yudkowsky and James Hughes)

Mailing Lists

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

• SIAI Volunteers
• Singularitarian
• SL4

Advanced Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• AGI

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

• Evolutionary Psychology

Nanotechnology

• Nanotech

Programming

Transhumanism

• Extropy
• WTA-Talk

Events

Accelerating Change and the Singularity

Advanced Technology

• Kurzweil AI.Net: Accelerating-Intelligence Events

Artificial Intelligence

• AAAI Calendar of Events
• ACM Calendar of Events

Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory

Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology Events and Conferences
• Small Times: Calendar of Events

Programming

Transhumanism

• Transhumanist Events and Conferences