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Nexus
by Yuval Noah Harari
challenging
informative
tense
slow-paced
Some chapters were a bit dull, but overall this topic was so interesting. If you want a shortened &very digestible version of this, he has a talk on youtube w/ Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Quotes.
“The government is already the most powerful institution in developed societies and it often has the greatest interest in distorting or hiding inconvenient facts. Allowing the governments to supervise the search for truth, is like appointing the fox to guard the chicken coop.”
“Democracies die not only when people are not free to talk, but also when people are unwilling or unable to listen.”
“For the survival of democracy, some inefficency is a feature not a bug. To protect the privacy and liberty of individuals, it’s best if neither the police nor the boss knows everything about us.”
“Knives and bombs do not themselves decide whom to kill. They are dumb tools, lacking the intelligence necessary to process information and make independent decisions. In contrast, AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”
I think sitting with these thoughts was so heavy. Thinking about how google was never meant to be a free search engine, but was always designed to culminate information to become AI. Additionally, thinking about how AI could replace jobs that are essentially data collection like certain doctor specialties, but not nurses since those are task/care oriented. Also thinking about how AI can solve CAPTCHA because it studies how we solve CAPTCHA puzzles. And thinking about how social media platforms were once horrified with how the wrong news was disseminated through their platforms, but then realized it created traction and revenue so they decided to let it happen…
In the end, we create our own destruction. We did this. How do we move forward.
Quotes.
“The government is already the most powerful institution in developed societies and it often has the greatest interest in distorting or hiding inconvenient facts. Allowing the governments to supervise the search for truth, is like appointing the fox to guard the chicken coop.”
“Democracies die not only when people are not free to talk, but also when people are unwilling or unable to listen.”
“For the survival of democracy, some inefficency is a feature not a bug. To protect the privacy and liberty of individuals, it’s best if neither the police nor the boss knows everything about us.”
“Knives and bombs do not themselves decide whom to kill. They are dumb tools, lacking the intelligence necessary to process information and make independent decisions. In contrast, AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”
I think sitting with these thoughts was so heavy. Thinking about how google was never meant to be a free search engine, but was always designed to culminate information to become AI. Additionally, thinking about how AI could replace jobs that are essentially data collection like certain doctor specialties, but not nurses since those are task/care oriented. Also thinking about how AI can solve CAPTCHA because it studies how we solve CAPTCHA puzzles. And thinking about how social media platforms were once horrified with how the wrong news was disseminated through their platforms, but then realized it created traction and revenue so they decided to let it happen…
In the end, we create our own destruction. We did this. How do we move forward.