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Harris and his contributors often engage in lively debate, and it's good to see some of that flavour translate from the spoken to written word. Harris does a good job at getting leading thinkers to succinctly convey their key ideas. Most important is ... Read More
This is most certainly a book to delve into again in the future. The only downside is that it may cause you to buy more books! Plenty of implicit recommendations throughout the collection.
From what i can glean, there are many exciting developments in the worlds of computer programming and neuroscience, and especially so where the two fields are starting to overlap in the development of ai. Harris discusses the possibilities of super hu... Read More
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I am grateful that i didn't pay for this rubbish and it went quickly back to the library shelf. The idea that ais are somehow more dangerous than humans is literally racist. Instead of pondering if the glass of water in front of them is a simulation o... Read More
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The earth will be transformed we know not how but it certainly is interesting to speculate on it with the world’s leading intellects
In some ways combining the interest of a podcast with the depth of a good work of nonfiction i found making sense stimulating reading
I agree with the observation harris makes in the book’s preface “
If you’re looking for hardnosed predictions on the next ten years you will be disappointed
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He plies his wares in a podcast he calls wakingup
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At first making sense might seem like a rather redundant exercise
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Although the dialogue has been redacted it might seem to be a book for only the most zealous fans of harris
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In this sense most of the conversations’ closest analogues is to the science fiction of the turn of the last century
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If you’re looking for hardnosed predictions on the next ten years you will be disappointed
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But if you like to speculate on where humankind may be in a hundred thousand or million years this book may be for you
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Plenty of implicit recommendations throughout the collection
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I agree with the observation harris makes in the book’s preface “
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