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#87: Sam Harris on Daily Routines, The Trolley Scenario, and 5 Books Everyone Should Read

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How to Build Human Level and Beyond Artificial Intelligence

Super intelligence is really the clearest book i've come across that makes the case that the so called control problem. We will wind up building this stuff by happenstans if we simply keep going in the direction we're headed. Unless we have good reason to believe that the machines we are building are benign and their behavior predictable, this is going to be a catastrophic intrusion into our livesthat we may not survive. I suspect many of you want recommendations on books about meditation and spiritual experience. There's no book out there that is free of the superstition and religiosity you tend to get with books about buddhism or advite vidantae hindo teachings of non duality.

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