Anyone read Bostrom's new book? I thought "Superintelligence" was a bit out there, but it was a pretty straightforward book about philosophy of AI. "Deep Utopia" feels like a philosopher having a stroke. I don't know that I've ever read a more confusing and repetitive book.
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@ZachWeinersmith I got so frustrated at Superintelligence that I shoved it in the trash after a few dozen pages. I very rarely literally get rid of a book but this was one of those... can't say I've tried anything by him since.
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@lana I mostly enjoyed it as inspiration for comics, since it had lots of thought experiments and such. Deep Utopia was like... written in the third person about himself lecturing, with dialogs that go nowhere, stories about animals... I dunno, it's weird.
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@ZachWeinersmith Mmh. He's not even super old (I've noticed that older scientists who are also book writers tend to hurriedly shove everything they care about in their last book, which makes for bad science and poor writing). Strange indeed. Maybe he used chatgpt to write it? Only half joking here but people who believe chatgpt is the next generation of human tend to miss even huge flaws in its output.
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@lana Yes it felt like a book by an emeritus professor!
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@ZachWeinersmith @lana “Yes it felt like a book by an emeritus professor!”
I think that’s so: his Future of Humanity Institute got shut down at Oxford earlier this year.
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