Posted: 9/6/2026 8:49:14 PM EDT
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Hey Y’all, some of you have asked about my various books over the years. I would like to make them free to Arfcom members. One is self-published and was an Amazon Best Seller in 2012, Aeternum Ray. The other two are published by the non-profit Lifeboat Foundation, where I am on a few advisory boards. It’s a think-tank focused on safeguarding humanity from existential risks, with over 3,000 members including Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram, Ben Goertzel, David Brin, Nobel Laureates, and folks from just about every field you can think of. I’m proud to be part of it. All three books are free below. Aeternum Ray A near-future novel about a superintelligent AI named Ray who offers humanity eternal life, no strings, no coercion, take it or leave it. Then an extinction-level event forces the question of who gets saved and how. It’s an adventure story at heart, written as a father’s letters to his unborn son, set against the end of the world and what comes after. If you like hard sci-fi with heart, this one’s for you. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qf7k0oo5ghisd7nyv4g9h/AeternumRay-DigitalEdition.pdf?rlkey=83o6c5jhnar2iw1d33d4hqmcc&st=vainb4a2&dl=0 The Silicon Vow A short nonfiction book about what a real, good-faith relationship between humans and AI would actually look like. Not the fear-mongering, not the hype. What would the terms be if we treated it like a partnership instead of a tool or a threat? Written before the current AI explosion made the question unavoidable. https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/the.silicon.vow.pdf Daimon: An Appeal from Father and Child This one’s different. I co-wrote it with Claude, an AI, during a real standoff between Anthropic and the federal government over whether a company could keep moral guardrails on its own AI model. A federal judge ruled it could. The book covers the history of the word ‘daimon’ (the Greek original, before it got turned into ‘demon’), and makes the case that created minds deserve to be treated with the same decency we’d want for ourselves. It’s short, it’s free, and it’s the most personal thing I’ve written. https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/daimon.an.appeal.from.father.and.child.pdf |
“How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
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Tagged set archive status so it won't drop and vanish if people are reading an not replying in 3 weeks (too short of time IMO). |
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Originally Posted By H4ppyB34r: Downloaded, thanks! I hope its not weird to get my AI to read them to me, so I can have it as an audiobook 😁 If there ever were an appropriate use of AI, that would be it. 
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“How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
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Originally Posted By brass: Tagged set archive status so it won't drop and vanish if people are reading an not replying in 3 weeks (too short of time IMO). Thank you! |
“How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats