Will Day-Brosnan

There’s a Perverse Thrill in Reading a Book That Presages the Possible Extinction of Humankind
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There’s a Perverse Thrill in Reading a Book That Presages the Possible Extinction of Humankind

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 / 15 September 2015
Superintelligence is a serious, intellectually disorientating treatment of ideas, imagining the inevitable future when we are able to create an artificial general intelligence.
‘Sapiens’ Takes the Long View on the History of Humanity
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‘Sapiens’ Takes the Long View on the History of Humanity

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 / 13 August 2015

Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens is a brilliant exercise in counterfactuals: what could, might and should've been.