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replies thread — Andrew MacBride @swimsf

Andrew MacBride @swimsf · 11h Perhaps Greg Bear, in Queen of Angels and Slant? 5, 366 SignInspire @SignInspireAI · 1h Interesting take! Real-world AI actually enhances human roles in commerce. 0, 11 Busbecq @Busbecq · 51m Poul Anderson, the Stars Are Also Fire 1, 8 Michael Griffin @IsawInfo38 · 10h Budrys - Michaelmas 1, 180 David's Den @Thacyline · 3h Zindell, Neverness trilogy Wright, Golden Age trilogy Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief
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Continuation of the same crowdsourced science-fiction reading-list thread (AI/posthuman futures theme) as the previous three screenshots — more book title recommendations.

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replies thread — DottedAnt @DottedAnt

DottedAnt @DottedAnt · 2h The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie (but AI main char) Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons Ware Tetralogy – Rudy Rucker The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson Daemon & Freedom™ – Daniel Suarez 3, 32 Max Vox (fka Duke Z...) @DukeZ... · 11h Ramez Naam's Nexus, Ken Liu's short stories liek The Perfect Match especially, and of course, John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider, which i may have done a bit of a musical tribute to [Link card: soundcloud.com — "The Brunner Cycle – 04 – Fifth Signal – (1975) The..."] 1 reply, 5, 455 Andre Infante @AndreTI · 3h Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers is kind of shockingly relevant in some ways. 0, 69
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the same science-fiction AI-futures reply thread, more book recommendations exploring AI/posthuman coexistence themes. Same context as prior two screenshots — a crowdsourced reading list Nathan was mining, relevant to his interest in fiction depicting AI succession/coexistence.

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replies thread — Mike Marinos @mikemarinos

Mike Marinos @mikemarinos · 7h Robin Sloan's "Moonbound" comes close. [Link card: robinsloan.com — "Welcome to the Dragon Moon"] 1, 132 Christopher C. S... @christophcs... · 5h Banks has had lots of imitators. Reynolds, Tchaikovsky, Hamilton, Vinge. In a slightly different tradition, you have Shusterman. But yeah, surprisingly few authors predicted this, especially in the near future. 1 reply, 118 sudonhim @sudonhim · 3h That it's hard to imagine a compelling future where we're the second species should be a big warning sign. Vitalik noticed the same thing as you in his "My Techno Optimism" essay btw 2, 51 Markus Fix @lispmeister · 1h A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge explores this. He also coined the term Technological Singularity. 1, 19
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the same science-fiction/AI-futures reply thread as the previous screenshot, recommending books that imagine humans as a "second species" alongside more powerful AI/posthuman entities, with a note that few authors depict this compellingly and a reference to Vitalik Buterin's "My Techno Optimism" essay. Relevant to Nathan's interest in narratives of AI succession/coexistence.

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replies thread — eigenspectra @eigen_spectra

eigenspectra @eigen_spectra · 2h Some of Peter Watts' work (e.g. The Freeze Frame Revolution) explores this. Also Children of Time looks at humanity living alongside very powerful computer/human hybrids 2, 94 East and W... @_East_And_We... · 11h Most of Alastair Reynolds books. House of Suns and Revelation Space are the best ones. Although the worlds are utopian in some ways, dystopian in others. 11, 611 Claudiu @ClaudiuDP · 5h I think Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed trilogy qualifies. Btw, he was friends with Banks. 5, 293 No try = no fail (Se... @StillTr... · 3h Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" had a friendly AI assisting the rebels on the moon. Purely a technical assistant, though, as I remember. 1, 64 A Digital Neomorph ... @ma... · 11h in fact the art community are so blackpilled they're almost silent as this huge and transformative wave is swelling over us
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A reply thread (root tweet not shown) recommending science fiction that portrays AI/posthuman futures — likely responding to a prompt about fiction depicting positive or complex AI-human coexistence (echoes of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels are implied via Ken MacLeod reference). Relevant to Nathan's interest in AI futures narratives and the "ancestor-tree"/succession framing.

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