Given the inclusion of space opera like Dune, I recommend including Vinge’s work like A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness In the Sky. These deal with the long term consequences of intelligence explosion, albeit one in a world with slightly different physics than ours (or so it seems given our limited information; Vinge is careful to construct it in a way such that I think we can’t be certain today our universe is not like the one he depicts in the books).
I’d also include Niven’s Ringworld. Not obvious this is longtermist at first, but deep into the book that changes (not much more I can say without spoilers if you’re hoping to read it).
Given the inclusion of space opera like Dune, I recommend including Vinge’s work like A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness In the Sky. These deal with the long term consequences of intelligence explosion, albeit one in a world with slightly different physics than ours (or so it seems given our limited information; Vinge is careful to construct it in a way such that I think we can’t be certain today our universe is not like the one he depicts in the books).
I’d also include Niven’s Ringworld. Not obvious this is longtermist at first, but deep into the book that changes (not much more I can say without spoilers if you’re hoping to read it).