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8 Reddit comments about The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future:

u/Athator · 9 pointsr/slatestarcodex

Interesting article by the author of The Inevitable who posits that only narrow AI is the more likely candidate for AI in the future and not AGI. I would disagree with many of his premises e.g. his 'strawmanish' argument of exponential intelligence growth, that human intelligence must be substrate-dependent, and he doesn't quite seem to engage in the argument of thinking of intelligence as a focused optimisation-process that can more likely achieve the outcomes its values are set to.
But point 5 did make me think: how much can a superintelligence infer from existing data alone? "Can you know the universe from a single pebble?" And if it requires more data, then the scientific method for accumulating data takes time. What does that mean for thoughts on intelligence explosions and "singularity"-type events? Or is there an assumption I have made in that train of thought, that isn't correct?

u/gonzoparenting · 6 pointsr/politics

I read an interesting book that discusses and answers all of your questions called The Inevitable. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089

u/csgraber · 5 pointsr/Futurology

ad hominem comment - directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

I never said that I am more versed than Musk (though we don't know if I am or not - it isn't relevant).

I'm just not going to agree with Musk because he is Musk. UBI is a favorite term of futurology. . .

I find someone like Kevin Kelley as a better resource/explanation of what will happen in the future (https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089).

u/Britney2007 · 2 pointsr/RedditForGrownups

I don't know if this has been posted yet or not but this book is a good read for anyone, but especially someone feeling the way you are feeling.

u/adi-dk · 2 pointsr/Futurology

The Inevitable is mostly about technology but has plenty economic and financial implications described for the coming decade.

u/OtmHanks · 1 pointr/xboxone

Currently reading a book about this subject (https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089) and apparently instant-access is going to replace ownership in the long term. It's happening now with entertainment media (Spotify, Netflix, EA Access), cars (Uber, Lyft) and may happen with much bigger things like shelter, food etc.

u/ejpusa · 1 pointr/entertainment

Holly Mother of God. :-)

"Dancing with the Stars and The Voice" ? Yipes!

How about Silicon Valley, Dark Mirror, and a dash of Dark Matter?

I bounce between Greenpoint and Manhattan. There is not a soul here that has "Network" TV anywhere in their world. Not a soul. It's gone. We use cable for only one thing. Just internet. Google is putting up 1gb/s access points all over the city. Totally free. Like to ditch my cable when they get one closer to my apt.

But what is back, BIG TIME? Books and paper. Everywhere. :-) And Voice (Alexa on Echo) is the craze.

You might really enjoy this book. We're all devouring it now (well 2 here for u).

Rushkoff
https://www.amazon.com/Throwing-Rocks-Google-Bus-Prosperity/dp/1617230170

Kelly
https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089

> That's nothing new. If you knew the industry you know that almost everyone is freelance and they moved on to new gigs the moment they wrapped the season finale of Vinyl.

Yes, but a few years back for sure, it would have been "you're stealing my show!", now it's "totally cool dude." Big change there.


u/algerhung · 1 pointr/Entrepreneur

Hi, I would like to suggest two books as following. I'm interested in some business field, so theses are my recommendations, enjoy~

1)the inevitable- kevin kelly
http://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089

2)Why Nudge?- Cass R. Sunstein
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Nudge-Politics-Libertarian-Paternalism/dp/0300212690