Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
The metaphors, clever examples, historic comparisons ignite your brain. As an 80 year old, I was surprised at how much I understood about the power AI and Super Intelligence … I want to immediately read it again for all the pieces that fell through my old mind.
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
One of the scariest things I’ve ever listened to. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell everyone.
Having read much about the AI alignment problem and AI risks and being an AI practitioner, I approached this book with skepticism. I was wrong. This is a clever and concise presentation of the problem. I won’t waste your time further reading this review – drop everything and go read this book, now. It’s that..
This is an amazing dive into what might happen if we stay complacent. please listen and learn what this book is trying to warn us about before it’s too late…
AI is more unstoppable than i realized, prior to this I thought it would be as simple as “Just don’t hook it up to the Internet and we’ll be fine”. Clearly one of these self improving AI will make it to the Internet and spread to all corners of the world.
Review from Pride and Prejudice Variations, 9 Books →
The characters are really shallow, the plots in all the stories feel repetitive, and there are so many logical inconsistencies that the characters’ behavior just doesn’t make sense…
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
I loved the structure of the book and the way the authors made complicated concepts digestible and memorable.
I admit to having a fascination with doomsday scenarios. But this book sent me down a wormhole. I like how the authors couched their scenarios in easily understood parables and spike in layman’s terms. Experts may think they are dumbing it down, but for someone like me who isn’t part of the tech sphere, their..
The author is narrates all of these parables and analogies from a perspective that is apparently explicitly aware of the outcome of the race for superinteligence, like the narrator in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, in a dry and entertaining and digestible way. However in the way of actual reasoning as to how the..
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
I’ve been training small AI projects at home for image generation, audio, and text. I’ve built vector database-based layered memory systems and agentic systems to shuttle memories between that and context. I can’t find any fault in logic here. I need to rethink my life. I’m kinda shook. I don’t know what to do other..