Learning path
You come from ideas
For readers trained in philosophy, theology, or political thought. Start with the arguments and their genealogy; branch into the machinery when you want it.
The path
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✓The Bitter Lesson
The five-minute ur-text of the scaling worldview — read it as a primary source.
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✓Ghost in the Cloud
The genealogy of AI eschatology, from resurrection theology to Kurzweil.
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✓Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
The strongest institutional account of what intelligence is.
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✓AI as Normal Technology
The deflationary position paper the scenario writers must answer.