Deep Utopia

[John Clark]

I finished Nick Bostrom's book "Deep Utopia" and I highly recommend it. There are lots of books describing what will happen if the AI revolution turns bad but this is the first one I've heard of that discusses what will happen if things go right, how will we find meaning in our lives if machines can do everything better than we can? Bostrom suggests there may be several ways it might still be possible to have a meaningful life. Parts of the book remind me a little of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, and that is very high praise, although Bostrom is more interested in philosophy than science or mathematics.

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[Giulio Prisco]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I finished Nick Bostrom's book "Deep Utopia" and I highly recommend it. There are lots of books describing what will happen if the AI revolution turns bad but this is the first one I've heard of that discusses what will happen if things go right, how will we find meaning in our lives if machines can do everything better than we can? Bostrom suggests there may be several ways it might still be possible to have a meaningful life. Parts of the book remind me a little of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, and that is very high praise, although Bostrom is more interested in philosophy than science or mathematics.
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It is a good book, better than Nick's previous one.

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[Cosmin Visan]

OMGGGG... You are AI-obsessed. Please define AI! In case you don't know, even the game Pong from 100 years ago had AI. Why all of a sudden you got obsessed ? Because it got into public culture as a meme, and since you lack own personality, you just adopted that meme because you think it makes you look cool ? Sure, in the eyes of people just like you. But in the eyes of the few lucid people, you look like a clown.