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the gentle romance

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Sholto Douglas @_sholtodouglas

— quoting @RichardMCNgo (Richard Ngo)

Sholto Douglas ✓ @_sholtodouglas · 14h Really enjoyed reading this over the holidays. Some very thoughtful extrapolations of the weird futures we might end up in. - Parables of ASI: The king and the golem / The ants and the grasshopper - Exploring the light cone: Succession - Simulation: Kuhns ladder / From the archives - Upload: The gentle romance - Meaning: Fixed point - Values: The witness, The ones who endure - Failure: Trojan Sky The themes cross over of course, but that gives an indication of what is being explored. [Quoted tweet:] Richard Ngo ✓ @RichardMCNgo · Dec 19 Thanks to everyone who came to The Gentle Romance book launch last week! It's great to have it out. Also, signing books is surprisingly fun. ... [4 photos: a fireside-chat-style discussion with two people seated in armchairs and an audience; an audience seated listening to a speaker; a person signing books at a table; a man laughing while holding a book at a signing table, bookshelves in background]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Sholto Douglas (Anthropic/AI researcher) recommends Richard Ngo's short-fiction collection exploring speculative futures with ASI — parable titles cover succession, simulation, uploading ("The Gentle Romance," a title Nathan's project already tracks as the origin of the "gentle power transfer" telos concept), meaning, values, and failure modes ("Trojan Sky"). Quoted tweet documents the book's launch event with photos. Directly relevant to Nathan's CAST-E/Plan-A-foil research thread — "The Gentle Romance" is the specific work already referenced in project memory as source material for the gentle-power-transfer framing; this gives the fuller list of companion parables (Succession, Fixed Point, The Witness, The Ones Who Endure, Trojan Sky) worth locating and reading.

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