CYBERSPACE

Surveillance

• The Transparent Society - David Brin. On “reciprocal transparency” in the face of surveillance that seems unavoidable given the future costs of sensors and economic and political incentives. Also as recording: Defend Against Physical allisonThreats | David Brin - Foresight Institute. 
• Nanarchy - Mark S. Miller. On surveillance and defenses against it.
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zubock. On the rise of tech giants’ surveillance power that enable extreme concentrations of knowledge and are free from democratic oversight.
• Rekt - DeFi investigative journalism, mostly exposing hacks.
• DarkNet Diaries - Podcast about hacktivism, exploits, and cybercrime.

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Energy

• Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index - Digiconomist. Provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.
• A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy - Vitalik Buterin, critique by Tuur Demeester and follow up article. On Proof of Stake as an alternative to the energy-intensive Proof of Work in blockchain technology.
• Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work - Paul Sztorc. On how alternatives to Proof of Work may not be more energy-efficient than proof of work.

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Security

• A Computer Will Destroy Humanity but it Won’t be Artificially Intelligent - George Hosu.
• Cyber, Nano, and AGI Risk - and Decentralized Approaches to Reduce Risk - Christine Peterson, Mark S. Miller, Allison Duettmann. 
• The Malicious Use Of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation - Miles Brundage et al. with a section on cybersecurity. 
• Cyberwar - Richard Clarke. 
• Ethereum is a Dark Forest - Dan Robinson, Georgios Kontantopolus. 
• Simulation Inferences - Gwern.

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Tools

• Computersecurity As The Future of Law - Mark Miller. 
• Network State - Balaji Srinivasan.
• What Do I Think About Network States? - Vitalik Buterin. Replies to Balaji’s book with a few suggestions for modifications around externalities and inclusivity.
• Gaming the Future - Mark Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison Duettmann. On cryptocommerce’s potential to help humans cooperate and defend against existential risks.
• Crypto Tools for Paretotopia - Juan Benet. On how economic growth and cryptography-tools can help advance civilization toward pareto preferred worlds.
• AI DAOs and Three Paths to get There - Trent McConaghy. Also: Nature 2.0. Combines and extends AI and blockchain into a symbiosis of biology and machine, for a future of abundance.
• Impact DAOs - Kevin Owocki, Alejandra Borda. Book mapping out ImpactDAOs in the web3 space.
• DeSci - Vincent Weisser. Explainer on Decentralized Science with link list.
• DeSci: Tech Trees to Fund Ambitious Science & Tech - Allison Duettmann. On decentralized technology trees to find and fund undervalued scientific areas to advance crucial scientific domains.
• Radical Markets - Eric Posner, Glen Weyl. Also: Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul - Glen Weyl, Puja Olhaver, Vitalik Buterin.On how quadratic funding, soul-bound tokens, and other crypto-innovations can reinvent much of our existing economy in crypto and enables the creation of entirely novel institutions. 
• Endgame - Vitalik Buterin. On making large blockchains trustless and censorship resistant.
• Why Cryptoeconomics and X-Risk Researchers Should Listen to Each Other More - Vitalik Buterin. On fruitful intersections between Crypto and X-risks.
• Crypto-Economic Approaches to X-risks - Allison Duettmann. Talk on various X-risks and which crypto tools could be useful in addressing them.
• A View of the Future of Our Data - Matt Prewitt. On how data coalitions can help provide humans with self-sovereign data ownership.
• SeL4: Formal Proofs of Real-World Cybersecurity | Gernot Heiser - Foresight Institute. On the SeL4 microkernel as a promising component of a viable computer security approach.
• Dominant Assurance Contracts | Alex Tabarrok, Tools for Openness | Audrey Tang, Zero-knowledge Cooperation | Zooko,  Cryptocommerce Tree, Crypto, Computing & AI Tree, Split Contracts - Foresight Institute. Seminar recordings on novel cryptographic tools to experiment with solutions for cooperation challenges across individuals or collective action problems.
• How the Extropians Quest for Digital Cash Secured our Trips to the Stars - Aaron van Wirdum. Article on how extropians were crucial in advancing early crypto, space, and other futurist developments. 

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Manifestos

• A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto - Anon. Introducing the mission and goals of the cypherpunks.
• Crypto Anarchist Manifesto - Tim May. Introducing the mission and goals of crypto anarchism.
• Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow. Classic speech delivered at Davos in favor of an independent cyberspace realm.

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Fiction

• Neuromancer - William Gibson. Early defining cyberpunk, not always positive.
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson. Introducing the concept of the metaverse.
• Islands In The Net - Bruce Sterling. On the decreasing relevance of nation states to individual human lives and geopolitics.
• True Names - Vernor Vinge.  Early sci-fi story on cyberspace, shaping the cyberpunk genre.‍
  

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Staying Up to Date: Conferences, News, Podcasts

• Financial Cryptography Conference with Bitcoin Workshop Track - A major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on commercial contexts.
• Ethereum Conferences - Events to meet people in the global Ethereum community, learn about employment opportunities, and develop new skills.
• DWeb Conference. Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web conference.
• DefCon - Hacker and security conference.

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Gearing into Action: Projects and Organizations

• Satoshi Nakamoto Institute - has early Email lists, protocols, background resources on Bitcoin.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation -  An international non-profit digital rights group.
• Internet Archive - A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Center for Long-term Cybersecurity - Is developing and shaping cybersecurity research and practice based on a long-term vision of the internet and its future.
• OpenMined - We are on a mission to help each member of society to answer their most important questions by empowering them to learn from data owned and governed by others.
• Ethereum Foundation - Dedicated to supporting the Ethereum blockchain and related technologies.
• Protocol Labs - We build protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. 
• Gitcoin - A platform where you get paid to work on open source software.
• RMIT - A blockchain innovation hub.
• SeL4 Foundation - Sel4-focused computer security foundation. 
• Plurality Research Network - Convenes researchers from computer science, political ethics, sociology, and government, who are experimenting with plural technologies.
  

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