Almond (like Yudkowsky and (so I hear) Drescher), looks at these topics through much more of an AI/CS lens than most who write about them. There's also stuff in there of interest from the futurist/transhumanist perspective that's common on LW. I'll admit that many of the essays are long, and I won't say you'll want to read the whole things, but I remember finding some of those that I read insightful and carefully-argued.