EA reading list: futurism and transhumanism

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Start here:

• The great filter (Robin Hanson)

• Modeling the human trajectory (David Roodman, 2020)

• Shall we vote on values, but bet on beliefs? (Robin Hanson)

• Long-term trajectories of human civilisation (Baum et al., 2019)

Further reading:

• Long-term growth as a sequence of exponential modes (Robin Hanson, 1998)

• This is the dream time (Robin Hanson)

• AI foom debate (Hanson and Yudkowksy, 2011)

• The fable of the dragon-tyrant (Nick Bostrom)

• Future filter fatalism (Carl Shulman)

• Characterising utopia (Richard Ngo)

• Space races: settling the universe fast (Sandberg)

• Spreading happiness to the stars seems little harder than just spreading (Carl Shulman)

• Financial returns of interstellar colonisation for the sedentary (Carl Shulman)

• Burning the cosmic commons (Robin Hanson)

• The future of human evolution (Bostrom)

• Whole brain emulation: a roadmap (Sandberg and Bostrom, 2008)

• Transhumanist values (Bostrom)