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The author's central questions are consistent over his other books:
First, since there is no such thing as free will (if you doubt this argument, I recommend Robert Sapolsky's Behave), the foundation of Liberalism-based Humanism will be further eroded with the increasing technical capability of manipulating our thoughts and emotions via directly interfering biological algorithms. What religion or social reality should we believe then?
Second, with increasing complexity and size of information, human can no longer make "right" decisions and instead rely on data-driven algorithms, or AI. With further increasing power of AI, it is likely that AI surpass humans not only in chess but also more creative and emotionally invoking works. Then, what can human do better than AI or what left for us?
No matter how much unrealistic it sounds, I think those questions are frightening but definitely worth pondering. I think we all have felt irrelevancy of us to society. Have I done anything meaningful to the world? What kind of meaning does my life have? These questions will be becoming much harder to answer in the coming decades.
Even thought the book was very compelling, I felt this book is a bit unstructured compared his other two books.
First, since there is no such thing as free will (if you doubt this argument, I recommend Robert Sapolsky's Behave), the foundation of Liberalism-based Humanism will be further eroded with the increasing technical capability of manipulating our thoughts and emotions via directly interfering biological algorithms. What religion or social reality should we believe then?
Second, with increasing complexity and size of information, human can no longer make "right" decisions and instead rely on data-driven algorithms, or AI. With further increasing power of AI, it is likely that AI surpass humans not only in chess but also more creative and emotionally invoking works. Then, what can human do better than AI or what left for us?
No matter how much unrealistic it sounds, I think those questions are frightening but definitely worth pondering. I think we all have felt irrelevancy of us to society. Have I done anything meaningful to the world? What kind of meaning does my life have? These questions will be becoming much harder to answer in the coming decades.
Even thought the book was very compelling, I felt this book is a bit unstructured compared his other two books.
I was reading this book at the hight of COVID and the beginning of the war in Ukraine, so most things that I was reading about misaligned with reality significantly.
It has the potential to transform the way you look at the world. A rare read!
Same Book as sapiens: Speculative ideas about „history“ of sapiens, followed by hypercapitalistic, futurist explorative and exploitative theories. Boring.
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Visions of a new human species, sometimes feels sad for the current generation. Makes me worry a bit about the future. What we regard as great may not be great afterall. But can show up opportunities for those who are looking for it.