Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

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Securing our frontier model training environment
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Quoted for the idea that you only get to detect the first deception.

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A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
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Accelerando
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Ashton Manual
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An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
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An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.
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Bridge of Waves
A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.
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