Favorite Things
Reading
Books
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
- Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
- Diaspora
Greg Egan
- Permutation City
Greg Egan
- Hyperion
Dan Simmons
- Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
- Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Maniac
Benjamín Labatut
- Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Short stories
- Julia
Fernando Borretti
- Answer
Fredric Brown
- The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
Blog posts
- The AI water issue is fake
Andy Masley
- The Control Group Is Out Of Control
Scott Alexander
- Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
Scott Alexander
- The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
Max Roser
- Video and transcript of talk on AI welfare
Joe Carlsmith
Movies
- Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson; Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
- Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant; Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
- The Empire Strikes Back
Irvin Kershner; George Lucas
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Joel Coen
TV
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Succession
- Andor
- Chernobyl
- For All Mankind
- Pantheon
- Devs
- Dark Matter