Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
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Harari argues that humanity's next project is upgrading itself - through bioengineering, AI, and data - into something post-human. The question is who controls that transformation.
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In the Conversation
In this collection, Homo Deus references 2 other books and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Selfish Gene.
It’s picked up by AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order and Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control.
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What Homo Deus Draws On
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Harari references Kahneman's split-brain research to argue that humans are not the rational decision-makers we believe ourselves to be, undermining the foundations of liberal individualism.
Harari engages with Dawkins's gene-centric evolution in Homo Deus.
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Engages with Harari's Homo Deus argument about the rise of a useless class by proposing that displaced workers can transition to human-care service jobs that AI cannot replicate
Addresses Harari's Homo Deus concern about algorithms knowing humans better than they know themselves, arguing this makes preference-learning AI both more feasible and more necessary to get right
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