• Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative by Eliezer Yudkowsky and The Basic AI Drives by Steve Omohundro
  Important warnings about the risks of AI. Steve's style is more organized and more likely to convince mainstream researchers. Eliezer deserves more credit for initiating the warnings which led Steve to start worrying about these issues.
• Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence
  Don't count on your wages being stable for too long.
• Large Scale Analysis of Neural Structures
  A straightforward (but currently expensive) way to produce digital intelligence.
• Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations
• Burning the Cosmic Commons
  A long term view of the final frontier?
• Shall We Vote On Values, But Bet On Beliefs? (also available in Postscript)
  How to fix many of the problems with democracy.
• Showing That You Care
  A theory of why paternalism exists.
• Economics and Evolutionary Psychology
  An explanation of why people tend to resist having prices adjust to supply and demand.
• Bilateral Monopoly: A Solution
  The economics of bargaining.
• A Positive Account of Property Rights
  Why rights exist.
• Are Disagreements Honest?
  Are you sure you understand why you hold beliefs?
• Why People Are Irrational about Politics
  A more readable but less rigorous version of the ideas in Are Disagreements Honest?
• The Final Prejudice and The Cognitive Capacity Argument
  Arguments that currently popular attitudes towards age discrimination reflect the same kind of bigotry as 19th century attitudes towards blacks.