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"Philosophy with a deadline", he quotes one of his physicist friends. I'm torn about this (see Manny's review). While especially the early chapters are a great read if you can live with Tegmark's relentlessly pop-science-y prose, and his discussions on goal orientation and definition are intriguing as well, he gets lost in a) an optimism that doesn't seem to arise from what he's written before, and b) extremely far-into-the-future speculations that would make Hari Seldon go "Dude..." It's got entire chapters about what might happens millions of years into the future, and about three sentences on what, practically, to do now (and maybe one on what the actual short-term benefit of the damn things might be). And his dissertations on Free Will and Conscience make it obvious that, well, he's a very clever physicist but still a physicist.
I'm glad there are nerds thinking about these questions, and seducing …
"Philosophy with a deadline", he quotes one of his physicist friends. I'm torn about this (see Manny's review). While especially the early chapters are a great read if you can live with Tegmark's relentlessly pop-science-y prose, and his discussions on goal orientation and definition are intriguing as well, he gets lost in a) an optimism that doesn't seem to arise from what he's written before, and b) extremely far-into-the-future speculations that would make Hari Seldon go "Dude..." It's got entire chapters about what might happens millions of years into the future, and about three sentences on what, practically, to do now (and maybe one on what the actual short-term benefit of the damn things might be). And his dissertations on Free Will and Conscience make it obvious that, well, he's a very clever physicist but still a physicist.
I'm glad there are nerds thinking about these questions, and seducing similarly nerdy people with deep pockets into thinking about them too. I'm glad they don't claim to have any pre-packaged answers. But damnit, I end the book knowing both more and so much less, and rather relieved that climate change will hopefully finish us off before this even becomes an issue.
https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/