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I once went on a bit of a journey to find "realistic" novels about AI and outside of Superintelligence (which I enjoyed reading as if it were a novel) and The A
by tern 6y ago
I once went on a bit of a journey to find "realistic" novels about AI and outside of Superintelligence (which I enjoyed reading as if it were a novel) and The Age of Em, Excession is one of the best I found. Still, nowhere close—I eventually concluded that truly imagining artificial intelligence in a way that would make for a compelling narrative is mostly impossible.
Others include:
- Accelerando
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- Permutation City
- Daemon
So far, the only sci-fi novel that meets the level of rigor I was looking for—albeit about aliens rather than AI—is The Three Body Problem.
- fossuser 6y agoYou need to read True Names: http://www.scotswolf.com/TRUENAMES.pdf http://www.scotswolf.com/TRUENAMES.pdf
- speed_spread 6y agoYou might like Peter Watt's Blindsight.
- marvin 6y agoBlindsight and Echopraxia are absolutely brilliant accounts of "what happens when you meet someone who is dramatically smarter than yourself". I'm glad someone on HN recommended them to me.