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Deep Utopia

Life and Meaning in a Solved World

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Deep Utopia

Written by: Nick Bostrom
Narrated by: David Timson
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*Gold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024*

Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise New York Times bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.

But what if things go right? Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete—a “post-instrumental” condition in which human efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. Furthermore, human nature itself becomes fully malleable.

The challenge we confront here is not technological but philosophical and spiritual. In such a “solved world”, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What would we do and experience?

Deep Utopia—a work that is again decades ahead of its time—takes the listener who is able to follow on a journey into the heart of some of the profoundest questions before us, questions we didn’t even know to ask. It shows us a glimpse of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.

©2024 Nick Bostrom (P)2024 Nick Bostrom Philosophy Politics & Government Public Policy Religious Studies

What the critics say

“This is a wondrous book. It is mind-expanding. It is poetic. It is moving. It is funny. The writing is superb. Every page is full of ideas.” —Russ Roberts, President of Shalem College

“Fascinating.” —The New York Times

“Yeah.” —Elon Musk
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Bistrom: hey kid what do you think about pretending to write a book about AI where we can all pretend to be actors talking shit to each other over and over and over again? Cassius: you know it just might work, half the people find this book are probably from your class and want to make sure that they get an a so they would do just about anything if you think about it what do you think Kelvin? Kelvin; I don't know I didn't really hear your question, by the way how hot do you think my feet will be if I walk on the surface of the sun? Tessius' come on now stop fooling around, this is going to get really angry if you don't concentrate on what this book about? I'm sure half the people have gone to sleep with some good bullshit theatrical crap

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This should've been a 80 page book at max and even the it would still lack meaningful exploration of the topic, written as if the author never talked to human or is a little post singularity chip themselves - plenty of softball and misdirected questions, blind techno optimism, and barely readable structure - this book got it all.

Edited this review to 1 star because 2 stars is too much

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