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🕮The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas. I. J. Good. Basic Books, 1962. [ISBN: 978-0465074549]
This is a strange book, mixing crazy ideas, jokes and, occasionally, dead serious and deep content, in particular, Wigner's friend paradox. The editor is I. J. Good, a cryptologist who worked with Alan Turing and a consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, also a pioneer of technological singularity, so definitely an insightful and interesting character.
A review in the AJP:
