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Deep Utopia Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Nick Bostrom
A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought? Bostrom’s previous book,
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The book doesn't focus on the practical challenges of reaching a utopia, but rather assumes we've solved the alignment and governance problems. It explores the implications of a world where AI has solved all practical problems, asking what would give humans meaning and purpose in such a world.
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And he's come back with a book that works out what happens if we get it right. And it's still kind of apocalyptic actually, to be honest.
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The book doesn't focus on the practical challenges of reaching a utopia, but rather assumes we've solved the alignment and governance problems. It explores the implications of a world where AI has solved all practical problems, asking what would give humans meaning and purpose in such a world.
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And he's come back with a book that works out what happens if we get it right. And it's still kind of apocalyptic actually, to be honest.
It's fascinating, it's so interesting, the question of what happens if things go well and what are the weird externalities that we face as a byproduct of that.
This book, Deep Utopia, let me promote it a little bit to our publishers. It doesn't talk about that at all. It's like not about the practical problems between here and it's rather like assume for the sake of argument that everything goes as well as it possibly could with the whole AI transition, et cetera.
And in order to get to the point where you can then ask the question, what's then if we do end up in this condition where all the practical problems have been solved, what would we humans then do?
So much of what we seem to value and take pride in are clever ways to deal with scarcity.
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It discusses what could happen if we get AI right.
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And deep utopia is what happens if we get it right.
It was presented as a book that explores the optimistic side of AI development, imagining what a world would look like if AI succeeds and solves humanity's problems.
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The groundbreaking book that brought the risks of advanced AI into the main conversation, as well as the book Deep Utopia, which explores what life might look like in a world where all our problems ar...
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It was presented as a book that explores the optimistic side of AI development, imagining what a world would look like if AI succeeds and solves humanity's problems.
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The groundbreaking book that brought the risks of advanced AI into the main conversation, as well as the book Deep Utopia, which explores what life might look like in a world where all our problems are solved.
deep utopia doesn't really say anything about the likelihood okay it's more an if then okay so in a sense the previous book super intelligence looked at how might things go wrong and what can we do to reduce those risks deep utopia looks at the other side of the coin what if things go right what then what happens if AI actually succeeds...
His books are so interesting, guys. Super intelligence, deep utopia, very, very good stuff.
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