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Emmett Shear @eshear

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.

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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 ♡1 📊30 İsmail Keskin @annartum · 1h The Time Regulation Institute if you like bureaucracy satire. ♡1 📊19 shri @shriy4nsh · 2h Shards of earth ♡1 📊17 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 [cut off at bottom]
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.

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continuation of book-recommendation thread — maxime @vmaxmc2

maxime @vmaxmc2 · 17m the master and margarita 📊7 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 ♡2 📊36 Clément Dumas @Butanium_ · 39m The anarchist banker [embedded link card: goodreads.com — "The Anarchist Banker (8) (GWE Literature in ..."] ♡1 📊22 Benjamin @bschne · 2h Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) The Dispossessed (Le Guin) Also short stories: Ted Chiang, Borges ♡3 📊86
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.

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@imMedhansh

algobaker @algobaker · 1h The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (yes it was a short story before being a movie) ♡1 📊33 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 ♡1 📊21 Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner · 2h Broken Earth trilogy Imperial Radch trilogy The Nix ♡1 📊77 Alex Bishka @alex_bishka · 1h Recursion (not the CS kind) by Blake Crouch ♡1 📊39 Aaditya Prasa... @_Aaditya_Pr... · 1h gentleman in Moscow / going postal [cut off at bottom]
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.

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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! 💬1 🔁 ♡4 📊144 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. ♡3 📊69 john @JohnBcde · 1h The Witcher book series ♡2 📊25 Shae Mclaughlin @shae_mcl · 2h Stoner, Brideshead Revisited, the Master and Magarita ♡2 📊85 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 (: ♡1 📊104 [cut off at bottom]
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.

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