Failures in Polymathy

– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.

The authors of this book think that everything is going to be fine, and that the future is going to be great. But to what extent are the correct?

How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.

You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut

Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.