The Trojan Software Company Presents: A Five-Part Salon Series on Society & Artificial Intelligence

WORK — The Meaning of Productivity

Reference PDFs (by oldest original date published)

1. 0370 BCE: The Phaedrus, by Plato, translated by David Horan (especially PDF Page 34 and on)
2. 1843 AD: "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage" By General Luigi Federico, translated by Ada Countess of Lovelace Menabrea, Officer of the Military Engineers
3. 1950 AD: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" by Alan Turing
4. 1965 AD: "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine" by J I Good (Link to Stanford Archive)
5. 1967 AD: "The Death of The Author" by Roland Barthes
6. 1967 AD: "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" by Richard Brautigan
7. 1969 AD: "Language Counter Memory Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews—'What is an Author?'" by Michel Foucault (PDF Page 113)
8. 1980 AD: "Minds, brains, and programs" by John Searle
9. 2023 AD: "Attention is All You Need" by Google
10. 2024 AD, June: "Situational Awareness" by Leopold Aschenbrenner
11. 2024 AD, October: "Machines of Loving Grace" by Dario Amodei
12. 2026 AD, August: "Hugging Face Incident Report" by Redwood & METR
13. 2026 AD, September 12: "We Must Pace the Frontier" by Dario Amodei