Reference Library

• AGI Social Contract series, Windfall Trust (ongoing)

• Bits and Bobs, Alex Komoroske (ongoing)

• Better Futures Series, Forethought (ongoing)

• Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing, Seb Krier et al (2026)

• Private Proof of Human: Critical Infrastructure for Humanity in a World with Advanced AI, World (2026)

• Current AIs Seem Pretty Misaligned to Me, Ryan Greenblatt (2026)

• Building Political Superintelligence, Andy Hall (2026)

• Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI, Imagining the Digital Future (2026)

• The 7 Frameworks to Understand Post-Labor Economics & The 8 Building Blocks of Universal High Income, David Shapiro, (2026)

• Working On vs Solving, Anastasia Gamick, (2026)

• The Adolescence of Technology, Dario Amodei, (2026)

• Laws of (New) Media, Andrew McLuhan (2025)

• Coasean Bargaining at Scale, Seb Krier (2025)

• Leisure, a Manifesto, Lavitalenta (2025)

• The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth,James Taylor Foreman (2025)

• Underdog Bias Rules Everything Around Me, Richard Ngo (2025)

• Prediction, the Successor to Post Modernism, Alex Danco, 2025

• Life After Work, Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, and Ege Erdil (2025)

• Post-Labor Economics P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, YT, David Shapiro, 2025

• Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt, Joel Z. Leibo, Wilcunningham, Seb Krier, Manfred Diaz (2025)

• Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation & A Philosophy of Planetary Computation, Benjamin Bratton (2025)

• Coordination Preference Political Quadrant Analysis, Richard Ngo (2025)

• AI 2027, Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean (2025)

• Economic Challenges for the Age of AI, Anton Korinek, 2025

• What fully automated firms will look like, Dwarkesh Patel, 2025

• Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom, 2024

• Navigating the Commodification Conundrum, Aaron Shapiro, 2023

• Not Born Yesterday, Hugo Mercier, 2022

• Preparing for the (Non Existent) Future of Work, Anton Korinek & Megan Juelfs, 2022

• The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021

• Everything is PR, Faris Yakob, 2021

• It’s Time to Build, Marc Andreessen, 2020

• The Strength of Being Misunderstood, Sam Altman, 2020

• Notes on Technology in the 2020s, Eli Dourado, 2020

• Status as a Service, Eugene Wei, 2021

• What You Do is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, 2019

• Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari, 2017

• Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom, 2016

• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev, 2015

• The Culture series, Iain M Banks, 1987-2012

• Why Action is More Valuable Than Ever, Dan Hou, 2012

• Remembrance of Earth’s Past, Liu Cixin, 2006-2010

• Obsolete the Dilemma, Ben Goertzel, 2010

• Solitude and Leadership, William Deresiewicz, 2010

• Regaining Strategic Competence, Barry Watts, Andrew F. Krepinevich, 2009

• Imagining the Internet studies, Elon University / Pew Research (2004 - present)

• Master of the Senate, Robert Caro, 2003

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 2000

• The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain, Francis Heyligen, 2000

• Destruction and Creation, John Boyd, 1976

• The Inner Ring, CS Lewis, 1944