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The Meaning of Life: And How AI Is Killing It
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The bell rings, and a twenty-four-year-old professional fighter rushes toward me like a rocket. I am fifty-eight years old. And I am a computer geek.
What kind of man ends up in a Thai boxing ring at fifty-eight? A Marine. A car repossessor from South Central LA. A skydiver, pilot, and technical cave diving instructor. A cybersecurity professional with a wall full of certifications who works with artificial intelligence every day - and who spent five years asking the one question that outlasts every job title: what is the meaning of life?
The answer in this book was not found in a library. It was earned through a crucible: combat training, a stack of psychiatric diagnoses, a gun in the mouth, cognitive therapy, losing everything, and starting over on the other side of the world. The conclusion is simple and it will be tested on every page: the meaning of life is feelings and emotions. Nothing more. Nothing less.
And that is exactly what artificial intelligence is quietly killing. Not with robots or lasers - with convenience. Every struggle it removes, every answer it hands us, every Wow it flattens into a shrug takes another piece of the only thing that ever made life mean anything.
This book is a field manual for keeping your Wow alive in the AI age. Sixteen chapters on the rational and emotional mind, ego, suffering, injustice, freedom, authenticity, and what winning actually looks like - written by a man who tested every idea on his own skin, with seventeen illustrations and zero sugar-coating.
If you have ever looked at your comfortable, automated life and wondered why it feels empty - this is why. And this is the way back.
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