Shaping Your Thinking

credit to the realGeorgeHotz

8-min read
Below is a list of write ups that recently shaped my thinking (via @realGeorgeHotz), and will hopefully provide some clarity and cut through the nonsense and noise.

1. Singularity, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, 18 Nov, 1996.

2. How To Become A Hacker, Eric Steven Raymond, 4 Oct, 2007.

3. How to Drop Out, Ran Prieur, 2 Apr, 2004.

4. An Open Letter To Open-minded Progressives, Mencius Moldbug, 17 Apr, 2008.

5. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, Roger Williams, 14 Oct, 2003.

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Singularity

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky's "Singularity" essay from 1996 is one of the early writings on the concept of the technological singularity.