On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
It is a good book, better than Nick's previous one. > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > bge > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "extropolis" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/extropolis/CAJPayv2iP9OCasCJTNyaVooFAMkS5WwnULHOUn68pPmC3sHuJg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAKTCJyeNhXsqEnmiahOiGwaUNUsRLFXW7YP6Xd34L484xSxnQQ%40mail.gmail.com.
