Deep utopia : life and meaning in a solved world
Bostrom, Nick
Deep utopia : life and meaning in a solved world by Nick Bostrom - Washington : Ideapress, ©2024 - 497 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday 4. Thursday 5. Friday 6. Saturday
If the AI transition goes well, human labour becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of 'post-instrumentality', in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines a new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future. -- Dust jacket. If the AI transition goes well, human labour becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of "post- instrumentality," in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future--
9781646871766
Artificial Intelligence
Utopias
006.3 / BOS-D
Deep utopia : life and meaning in a solved world by Nick Bostrom - Washington : Ideapress, ©2024 - 497 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday 4. Thursday 5. Friday 6. Saturday
If the AI transition goes well, human labour becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of 'post-instrumentality', in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines a new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future. -- Dust jacket. If the AI transition goes well, human labour becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of "post- instrumentality," in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future--
9781646871766
Artificial Intelligence
Utopias
006.3 / BOS-D