NYC 2011

The First One

Light

• Litany of Tarski by Alfred Tarski (?) -- If I am an alien-hybrid fish person...
• Its_beginning_to_look_a_lot_like_Fish_Men [Not Available]
• Strange_Geometries_at_Solstice [Not Available]
• All_I_Want_For_Solstice_is_My_Sanity [Not Available]
• Oh_Ancient_Town_of_Old_Rlyeh [Not Available]
• Have_Yourself_a_Scary_Little_Solstice [Not Available]

A Little Darker

• Litany of Tarski by Alfred Tarski (?) -- If preserving my brain can give me a lifespan  with an expected value of fourteen hundred years,...
• Necronomicon by Raymond Arnold ◦ What "Winter Wonderland" is to the teachings of Jesus, this song is to incomprehensible horrors that shape our world.
• RE_Your_Brains [Not Available]
• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things

Darker Still

• Litany of Tarski by Alfred Tarski (?) -- If humankind will be destroyed during my lifetime...
• The_Humans_Are_Dead [Not Available]
• Chiron_Beta_Prime [Not Available]
• We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer ◦ A darkly humurous silver lining for mushroom clouds
• Carol_of_the_Old_Ones [Not Available]

Even Darker

• An Alien God (Abridged)
• Litany of Tarski by Alfred Tarski (?) -- If humankind will be destroyed during my lifetime...
• Mindspace is Deep and Wide by Raymond Arnold ◦ A warning against anthropromophizing optimizers
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Spring Mourning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ◦ The passing of seasons, and of lives

Dark

• Litany of Gendlin by Eugene Gendlin
• Beyond the Reach of God by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Raymond Arnold
• We_Can_Build_Ourselves_a_Henge [Not Available]
• The Pantheon aka Ain't Gonna Catch You by Darren Korb ◦ There is no one to protect you from yourself
• The Drummers Little Boy by Raymond Arnold ◦ Refusing to give up
• No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim (from Into the Woods) ◦ An anthem of communal support

Light Renewed

• The Gift We Give Tomorrow by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Raymond Arnold
• Minute of Silence
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• I Love The World by Brian Chapman ◦ All the awesome things on this planet
• Singularity by The Lisps ◦ The ever-increasing weirdness that may lie ahead

Coda

• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein