Foundation (Foundation, #1)

The Other Asimov | Los Angeles Review of Books

Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics have influenced AI’s development, but to what end?

Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)

Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a n…

Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden …

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that 'there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.' That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell.

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it

Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

BookHive | sci-fi spec fic book club ideas

sci-fi spec fic book club ideas — a book shelf by @awarm.space on BookHive

Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott

From Two Cheers for Anarchism, published last month by Princeton University Press. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Foundation

Foundation learns from your agent sessions and maintains a self-improving wiki of everything you and your team know.

The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

A close reading of prophetic fiction in the age of artificial superintelligence

Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History

This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).