A new San Francisco AI canon lists 10 books from Vinge to Ted Chiang
surmenok · x · 2026-07-27
A quoted post shares a San Francisco AI / superintelligence canon reading list, framed as a better alternative to Deedy’s more classic Silicon Valley hacker canon.
The 10-book list includes A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Accelerando, The Quantum Thief, I, Robot, Permutation City, Exhalation, Ender’s Game, Excession, and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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