
Deep Utopia
Life and Meaning in a Solved World
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Narrated by:
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David Timson
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By:
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Nick Bostrom
*Gold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024*
Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise New York Times bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.
But what if things go right? Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete—a “post-instrumental” condition in which human efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. Furthermore, human nature itself becomes fully malleable.
The challenge we confront here is not technological but philosophical and spiritual. In such a “solved world”, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What would we do and experience?
Deep Utopia—a work that is again decades ahead of its time—takes the listener who is able to follow on a journey into the heart of some of the profoundest questions before us, questions we didn’t even know to ask. It shows us a glimpse of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.
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Critic reviews
“This is a wondrous book. It is mind-expanding. It is poetic. It is moving. It is funny. The writing is superb. Every page is full of ideas.” —Russ Roberts, President of Shalem College
“Fascinating.” —The New York Times
“Yeah.” —Elon Musk
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I highly recommend Deep Utopia
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Public Philosophy at Its Best
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Would I relisten: Absolutely!
In incredibly entertaining presentation
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25% information, 75% perspiration
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really hard to follow
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Boring incoheren 20hrt rample
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If “work” is a unit of measure tied to one’s likelihood to finish the book then, maybe it does work. But I have to say I would not be comfortable recommending this book to anyone. There were just too many times when I found myself thinking not about the concepts discussed in the content rather about the excess that content represents.
An alternate title for this review might be, “High percentage of unnecessary words.” Ceteris peribus, it could have been half as long and just as replete with meaning. In other words, it has ~100% too many words.
In fairness toNick, I will remain open to the possibility that I missed something of foundational importance.
Too much, too soon?
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Can’t get into it, too chaotic
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Long lecture. Tedious characters.
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