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Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark — WisdomDeck honest review
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Life 3.0

by Max Tegmark

An MIT physicist on the future of intelligence: scenarios from benevolent dictator to libertarian utopia, the control problem and consciousness. Wide-ranging and speculative.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Define the goal before building the power.
  2. Scenarios clarify values.
  3. Consciousness is the hard question.

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