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Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud

Eliezer Yudkowsky (@allTheYud) — Jul 30 It's strange now to read stories like "A Deepness in the Sky" where people are flying around in interstellar spaceships; and yet when they need a piece of software, they look for something already written, rather than telling Claude to write it for them.
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Yudkowsky tweet remarking on the anachronism of older science fiction (Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky") depicting advanced interstellar civilizations that still rely on manually written/found legacy software rather than AI-generated code, using Claude as the reference point for present-day capability.

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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
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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]
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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
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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]
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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]
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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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Nathan @NathanpmYoung

``` Nathan 🔍 @NathanpmYoung · 1h: "There name of the wind." [reply 0, like 3, views 68] Anders Sandb... @anderssandb... · 4m: "Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker." [like 1, views 10] Stanislav Fort @stanislavfort · 2h: "Accelerando by Charles Stross, Diaspora by Greg Egan, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges" [reply 2, like 7, views 269] Jhosé does the Jhanas... @Art... · 2h: "Favourite is a hard one! Some I liked: that came to mind are No Antimemetics Division, Mistborn, and Project Hail Mary" [like 6, views 168] eigenspectra @eigen_spectra · 6m: "Ra by qntm is about a world where magic is real, but it's basically a postgraduate physics degree and most people don't bother to learn it. It's a good book. qntm also wrote There is No Antimemetics Division which has been recommended before. Also blindsight by peter watts" [views 7] status effects @status_effects · 2h: "if you want something contemporary, the..." [cut off] ——— status effects @status_effects · 2h: "if you want something contemporary, the new sally rooney book (intermezzo) i found gripping. separately, was on a big george saunders short story kick, can't recommend enough" [like 1, views 51] Larissa Schiavo @lfschiavo · 1h: "Crying of Lot 49 (a little story, a weird story, a California story)" [like 2, views 78] henry @hdevalence · 2h: "when we cease to understand the world by benjamin labatut" [like 1, views 120] sydney @demiurgently · 1m: "book of the new sun!" ```
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A reply thread of favorite science fiction book recommendations (Accelerando, Diaspora, Ficciones, Mistborn, Project Hail Mary, Ra, There Is No Antimemetics Division, Blindsight, Starmaker, Name of the Wind). Notably includes Nathan (@NathanpmYoung, likely a different Nathan, an EA/forecasting-adjacent figure) and Stanislav Fort (interpretability researcher) among repliers. Cultural/literary interest list; several titles (Blindsight, Ra, Antimemetics Division) deal with consciousness/cognition themes relevant to Nathan Helm-Burger's interests, but the tweet itself is just a reading-list thread. Continuation of the same book-recommendation reply thread (Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, George Saunders, Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49, Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun). Purely a literary reading-list thread, no substantive AI safety/welfare content.

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