Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffer...

Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering

Aapo Hyvärinen's book "Painful Intelligence" models human suffering through AI, exploring its mechanisms and proposing interventions informed by computational neuroscience and philosophies like Buddhism and Stoicism.

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