HACKER Q&A
📣 hoerzu

Book recommendations for ChatGPT shaped future?


Anything regarding prompts, philosophy, psychology, computer science


  👤 p1esk Accepted Answer ✓
“Manna” by Marshall Brain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

Written in 2003 (!)

Describes a very realistic scenario of what can start happening in the near future, as people look for ways GPT-4 can save them money.


👤 hecksideci_1
The children of time series by Tchaikovsky — fictional exploration of questions about sentience and intelligence — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

👤 markus_zhang
Lord of light. A similar popular book but written in Chinese is "赛博英雄传" if you can read Chinese or maybe ask GPT-4 to translate for you.

👤 jrepinc

👤 Peroni

👤 precompute
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, covers all four (and more).

👤 gnz11
I thought Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0 was interesting. But with all this future prediction stuff, best to take it with a grain of salt.

👤 ian0
Accelerando by Charles Stross

👤 bckr
Have you read The Singularity is Near?

👤 jerojero
I have no mouth, and I must scream.