I’m an ethics PhD student, so unsurprisingly lots of that. Currently reading Consequentialism and its Critics (ed. Samuel Scheffler), Nagel’s The Possibility of Altruism, Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics , and Enoch’s Taking Morality Seriously, with various levels of commitment. Also reading Joseph Romm’s Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, and just started The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandanavian Utopia.
In fiction, I just finished Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, which I highly recommend for rationalists. Deals with a lot of issues we tend to think about, mostly immortality and friendly-AI-run utopia.
I’m an ethics PhD student, so unsurprisingly lots of that. Currently reading Consequentialism and its Critics (ed. Samuel Scheffler), Nagel’s The Possibility of Altruism, Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics , and Enoch’s Taking Morality Seriously, with various levels of commitment. Also reading Joseph Romm’s Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, and just started The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandanavian Utopia.
In fiction, I just finished Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, which I highly recommend for rationalists. Deals with a lot of issues we tend to think about, mostly immortality and friendly-AI-run utopia.