Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
While science experiments often seem more straightforwardly and obviously good – a new life saving medicine or cheaper electricity solve clear problems – humanity’s uniqueness, and our ability to solve hard scientific problems in the first place, comes from our ability to coordinate and work together as social creatures. Democracy was a bloody, mes... See more
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
Humans as individuals and humankind as a whole will increasingly have to deal with things nobody ever encountered before, such as superintelligent machines, engineered bodies, algorithms that can manipulate your emotions with uncanny precision, rapid man-made climate cataclysms, and the need to change your profession every decade.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Once AI makes better decisions than we do about careers and perhaps even relationships, our concept of humanity and of life will have to change. Humans are used to thinking about life as a drama of decision-making. Liberal democracy and free-market capitalism see the individual as an autonomous agent constantly making choices about the world. Works
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Why is there never an objective? And now I think about it, if there were, what would it even be? The answer is perhaps the same for us here at the end of history as it was for our ancestors millions of years ago at the beginning: to live well, to live quietly, and to die without too much of a fuss. And if we are very, very lucky, to love properly a
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