I wish there had been more discussion on the possibility of the transhumanistic fusion between man and machine via biotechnological engineering.

Overall, the book sheds light on the current state of knowledge around A.I. The importance he readily gives to philosophy as the arbiter of the big questions of the future warms this philosopher's heart. But even outside his purported main area of expertise, he pulls no punches: the chapters on ethics and consciousness, for example, are eminently thoughtful and illuminating. Which I don't mind.) One thing that Tegmark has special expertise in is space (he is a physicist), so the chapters on space exploration and colonisation are the most solidly grounded and, for that reason, inspiring of awe. (The reader is thus served hot and cold dishes in schizophrenic rotation. But he simultaneously waxes lyrical about the positive powers of enhancement that A.I. In fact, since I am (perhaps) one of those sorry people, he appears to me excessively conservative when he cautions the reader against the risks associated with unregulated and undirected A.I. Tegmark writes passionately without succumbing to the naive enthusiasm of the most lurid techno-optimists. could take in the near future, and their potential impact on human society.

These help to illustrate, in vivid colours, the ethically challenging pathways that a superintelligent A.I. The book goes through several science fiction and science fact(ion) scenarios, from utopian to dystopian. Excelente expose of how our world is changing and how little of this information is bleeding into the general public as a possible total game changer.Īn important summary of where we are headed as a species and as the guardians of the future of A.I. Time to have science influence politics a lot more than just as a possible future, but because science is the main engine of the future good or bad, and having social change created by half blind demagogs will not put us in line with the future shock. Politicians are pushing for population growth to stimulate economies and importing humans with retrograde religions to boost modern societies while these societies are advancing modes of technology that will diminish the necessity of ever-growing numbers of human to stimulate economies, and by the very nature of this technologies and sciences contradicting the exitance of god and our own importance as biological beings in this plane of reality. Definitions and concepts to ideas that are changing the world while humanity fights over gods and philosophies of other centuries, the shock will hit so hard it will change everything or everything will burn.

Life 3.0 by max tegmark