Start here:
- The great filter (Robin Hanson)
- Modeling the human trajectory (David Roodman, 2020)
- Shall we vote on values, but bet on beliefs? (Robin Hanson)
- Long-term trajectories of human civilisation (Baum et al., 2019)
Further reading:
- Long-term growth as a sequence of exponential modes (Robin Hanson, 1998)
- This is the dream time (Robin Hanson)
- AI foom debate (Hanson and Yudkowksy, 2011)
- The fable of the dragon-tyrant (Nick Bostrom)
- Future filter fatalism (Carl Shulman)
- Characterising utopia (Richard Ngo)
- Space races: settling the universe fast (Sandberg)
- Spreading happiness to the stars seems little harder than just spreading (Carl Shulman)
- Financial returns of interstellar colonisation for the sedentary (Carl Shulman)
- Burning the cosmic commons (Robin Hanson)
- The future of human evolution (Bostrom)
- Whole brain emulation: a roadmap (Sandberg and Bostrom, 2008)
- Transhumanist values (Bostrom)
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (Sandberg, Drexler, Ord 2018)
Brave New World? A Defence of Paradise-Engineering (David Pearce, 1998, last updated in 2022)