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Expectations Vs Reality
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the expectations vs reality presented in Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. While some found the book thought-provoking and insightful, others felt it was overly optimistic about the future and lacked a critical perspective on current issues such as climate change and overpopulation.
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Ai is facilitating a growng trend creating rather than merely measuring reality.
One of the greatest intellectual achievements in history turned out to be a bomb that can destroy everything on earth.
I wrote down a lot of notes from this book and at one point used a screenshot of one of the pages as my phone lock screen.
This locks each side into insisting on complete surrender by the other.
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This was perfectly knowable several years ago, and harari’s satisfaction with aids treatment being available to those with mone... Read More
Ukraine gets all of this in a deal that the stupid russians believe works out well for them.
Russia gets all of this in a deal that the stupid ukrainians believe works out well for them.
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Book arrived quickly and was in great condition.
Such an agreement might have to be arrived at by a series of verifiable steps, given the complete absence of trust right now.
”harari goes on to recount how italy jumped into the first world war eager to retake trento and trieste from austro-hungary, th... Read More
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The fact is that neither side is ever going to get anything better than the minsk 2 agreement that they could have had years ag... Read More
He says that poor countries have wars, without ever mentioning that rich countries manufacture the weapons.
Overall, still recommend as a good follow-up to sapiens.
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- This product had a total of 36,332 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 7 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was expecting something similar to sapiens but due to the nature of this book there’s much less facts and much more speculations which is not exactly what i was expecting however is a good book overall
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But the last part felt like it dragged on for me
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Not an easy read but one that makes you close your eyes and ponder
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Interesting and enlightening in parts but other parts such as his discussion of consciousness are overthought and ultimately gibberish
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Build better algorithms and people become superfluous unless they enhance people
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The book bogs down in discussing things like the algorighms for consciousness
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Science hasnt been able to fully determine how consciousness and many other brain processes work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The middle of the book frequently goes off on tangents that add nothing
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