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Book Review: The Receipt Horizon by Joel Borgen

L4 · DeveloperOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 10/13/2026

Examines philosophical and governance implications of superintelligent AI systems relevant to AI builders and developers.

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Book review of 'The Receipt Horizon' by Joel Borgen, which explores AI governance, superintelligence, and emulated minds through science fiction.

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When author Joel Borgen—in an act of eagle-eyed marketing marksmanship—contacted me as an "unusually plausible reader" for his debut novel, I grudgingly had to agree. Deploying a little tasteful and well-deserved flattery and then suggesting that hard SF, AI governance, and violins [...] superintelligence, emulated minds, identity and continuity, and civilization-scale consent might be relevant to my interests, he had me dead to rights. I stepped into the baited trap eyes-open, expecting to h

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