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Consider Phlebas
Sci-Fi
The first novel in Banks's Culture series, depicting a post-scarcity civilization where humans coexist with benevolent superintelligent Minds. Hassabis describes the Culture as the best optimistic picture of a post-AGI future ever written — and named the Theme Park cheat code 'Horza' after its protagonist.
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“Banks' Culture series is brilliant. Consider Phlebas is one of my favourite books, I read it back in the day when I was programming Theme Park”
Hassabis read the Culture series while writing the Bullfrog game Theme Park as a teenager. He used 'Horza' — the Consider Phlebas protagonist — as a cheat code.
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Appears on Levchin's '12 Books I Read in 2016' LinkedIn reading list.
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“Iain M. Banks' amazing Culture series [is] a huge personal favorite”
The page cites a Jeff Bezos tweet about the Culture series.
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“Compelling picture of a grand, semi-utopian galactic future. Hopefully not too optimistic.”
Page cites a tweet by Elon Musk about Iain Banks' Culture novels.
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Listed on Stewart Brand's Manual for Civilization book list.
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- blog.longnow.org · Stewart Brand Book List for Manual reading list
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