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Homo Deus - Harari #5

Closed amsaha closed 5 years ago

amsaha commented 5 years ago

The authors goes into how the future might look like and leaves us with three important questions, which are at the very end of the book:

  1. Are organisms really just algorithms and is life really just data processing?
  2. Is intelligence and consciousness independent of each other?
  3. Can intelligent algorithms without consciousness start to dictate our life, what will society look like?

The book is a decent read but it feels a bit repetitive about the doom of homo sapiens who are overtaken by algorithms that operate on huge amount of data that is humanly not possible to process.