Joshua Achiam @jachiam0 · 2m
Dumb question: suppose there is an old book by a still-living author that you think is of such supreme importance it deserves a new print run so more people can read it. How do you make that happen? Is that a thing, like, at all? (Probability I'll put actual effort into this is maybe 5% tops, but I am very curious.)
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Joshua Achiam asks how one would go about getting a new print run for an old, out-of-print book by a still-living author that he considers supremely important, noting low probability he'll pursue it.
Emmett Shear @eshear · 13h
Try:
The Quantum Thief
Diaspora, Axiomatic, Instantiation
Exhalation
The Nanotech Succession
Alien Clay
Anathem, Termination Shock
Children of Time
Daemon
Hail Mary
Echopraxia
Down And Out In The Magical Kingdom
Halting State
Manna
Too Like The Lightning
Crystal Society
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A hard sci-fi reading list from Emmett Shear (former interim OpenAI CEO, AI safety-adjacent figure). Several titles are directly relevant to Nathan's interests — Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" and "Instantiation" explore consciousness/entropy; "Daemon" and "Manna" are AI-takeover/automation novels; "Crystal Society" is an AI-protagonist novel; Peter Watts' "Echopraxia" deals with consciousness and zombies (non-conscious intelligence). Likely posted in reply to a recommendation-request thread, no further context visible.
continuation of book-recommendation thread — Cyril † @cyrilnotes
Cyril † @cyrilnotes · 2h
A few interesting short stories / novellas people could dip into:
- Leaf by Niggle
- Psalm for the Wild-Built
- Lucian's True History
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İsmail Keskin @annartum · 1h
The Time Regulation Institute if you like bureaucracy satire.
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shri @shriy4nsh · 2h
Shards of earth
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Rev N. Fidel @RevNFidel · 37m
Fiction is more critical to humanity than non-fiction.
1. God Bless you Mr Rosewater -Vonnegut
2. The Good Earth -- Pearl Buck
3. Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain -- James Baldwin
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Continuation of the same Twitter book-recommendation thread. Notable mention: "Psalm for the Wild-Built" (Becky Chambers) is a novella centered on a robot/AI character's search for purpose — thematically adjacent to Nathan's AI-consciousness interests, though the tweet itself is just a title list.
continuation of book-recommendation thread — maxime @vmaxmc2
maxime @vmaxmc2 · 17m
the master and margarita
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Matt Beard @matt_beard_ · 1h
North Woods is a vibey time-lapse of short stories that all take place on the same land in a New England forest over hundreds of years. It's about impermanence, it crosses different mediums, it's kind of spooky but wholesome
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Clément Dumas @Butanium_ · 39m
The anarchist banker
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Benjamin @bschne · 2h
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
The Dispossessed (Le Guin)
Also short stories: Ted Chiang, Borges
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Continuation of the same Twitter book-recommendation thread. Notable for Benjamin's mention of Ted Chiang and Le Guin's The Dispossessed — authors whose work touches AI/consciousness themes, but the tweet itself is just a reading list, no substantive discussion.
algobaker @algobaker · 1h
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (yes it was a short story before being a movie)
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medhansh ⚡ @imMedhansh · 39m
project hail mary by andy weir
same guy who wrote the martian but somehow even better. sci-fi that reads like a thriller, and has the best alien friendship in any book ever
you'll finish it in 2 days max
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Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner · 2h
Broken Earth trilogy
Imperial Radch trilogy
The Nix
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Alex Bishka @alex_bishka · 1h
Recursion (not the CS kind) by Blake Crouch
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Aaditya Prasa... @_Aaditya_Pr... · 1h
gentleman in Moscow / going postal
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Continuation of the same Twitter book-recommendation thread as the prior screenshot — more sci-fi/literary picks. Casual reading list browsing, no substantive AI safety content.
replies to a book-recommendation thread — maggie @ebervector
maggie @ebervector · 2h
I just finished pnin by nabokov and I think I'm gonna reread the sirens of titan and I recommend both!
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Pale Blue Medi... @MatveyShi... · 1h
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (it's secretly a book from the future, tons of fun math wrapped as jokes)
* Stanislaw Lem
* The city and the stars, Rama, Clark
* Henry Kattner
* Zelazny
* Ring world is v. easy reading, Niven
* Alice in Wonderland
* Strugatsky bros.
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john @JohnBcde · 1h
The Witcher book series
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Shae Mclaughlin @shae_mcl · 2h
Stoner, Brideshead Revisited, the Master and Magarita
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stef @stefaesthesia · 2h
a few of us just started reading Project Hail Mary - you can join us in our little twitter one-off book club if you want (:
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A Twitter/X thread of book recommendations (mostly sci-fi/literary classics) in response to some prompt. Casual reading-list browsing, no AI safety content.
