Life 3.0
by Tegmark, Max 路 12 highlights
The ability to learn is arguably the most fascinating aspect of general intelligence.
Career Advice for Kids So what career advice should we give our kids? I鈥檓 encouraging mine to go into professions that machines are currently bad at, and therefore seem unlikely to get automated in the near future. Recent forecasts for when various jobs will get taken over by machines identify several useful questions to ask about a career before deciding to educate oneself for it.48 For example: Does it require interacting with people and using social intelligence? Does it involve creativity and coming up with clever solutions? Does it require working in an unpredictable environment? The more of these questions you can answer with a yes, the better your career choice is likely to be. This means that relatively safe bets include becoming a teacher, nurse, doctor, dentist, scientist, entrepreneur, programmer, engineer, lawyer, social worker, clergy member, artist, hairdresser or massage therapist.
If we one day succeed in building human-level AGI, this may trigger an intelligence explosion, leaving us far behind.
If humans fail to control an intelligence explosion, the AI itself may take over the world even faster.
out of all ways that nature could choose to do something, it prefers the optimal way,
we make decisions all the time, and that every decision we make reveals something about our goals.
would we really want people from 1,500 years ago to have a lot of influence over how today鈥檚 world is run?
let鈥檚 not let perfect be the enemy of good:
Any engineer designing a machine needs to ask if there are things that it can but shouldn鈥檛 do, and consider whether there鈥檚 a practical way of making it impossible for a malicious or clumsy user to cause harm.
what sort of future you want rather than merely what sort of future you fear,
you also vote every day through what you choose to buy, what news you choose to consume, what you choose to share and what sort of role model you choose to be.
Do you want to be someone who interrupts all their conversations by checking their smartphone, or someone who feels empowered by using technology in a planned and deliberate way?