Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
|---|---|
| Published | 1968 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel — the book Blade Runner was made from — about a bounty hunter retiring six escaped androids in a post-war San Francisco whose animal life has mostly died off. The test that separates human from android is an empathy test, and the book spends its length undermining it. |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — November 2017 (Books photo album)
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The a16z infrastructure team — S tier in the Sci-fi — Must reads section of the a16z Infra Reading List, under Philip K. Dick’s selected works. The best-known book on that shelf, and the most useful for anyone building systems that classify people: the plot is a classifier with a false-positive problem and a bounty attached to its output.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Philip K. Dick — the author.
- Blade Runner — the 1982 adaptation, already in the watch queue.
- The Minority Report — the other Dick work here about a system that decides who someone is.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.