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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

Bostrom, Nick

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral ComputersHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $32.95

ISBN10: 1646871642
ISBN13: 9781646871643
Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
Published: Mar 27 2024
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Bostrom's last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), sparked a global conversation on AI that continues and widens to this day. That book, which despite its academic style became a New York Times bestseller, focused on what would happen if AI goes wrong.

But what if AI goes right? Suppose we succeed in developing superintelligence safely and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this unlocks. We would then achieve full unemployment. More than that, we would transition into a post-instrumental condition, in which human effort is not needed for any practical purpose. This would be a condition of material abundance. Human nature itself would become fully malleable.

In such a solved world, what would be the point of human existence? What could give meaning to our lives? Which old values will we have to sacrifice, and which new values will we be able to realize to wonderful degrees?

Deep Utopia--a work that is again years ahead of its time--takes the readers on a journey into some of the most profound questions that arise as we dissolve the limits of our current mode of being. It is a lush, playful, difficult, and human text that interleaves fiction stories and philosophical lectures that show us a glimpse of a different kind of existence-one that might be ours in the not-so-distant future.

Winner of 7 Book Awards!

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