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Consider California. Its wealth was initially built on gold mines. But today it is built on silicon and celluloid – Silicon Valley and the celluloid hills of Hollywood. What would happen if the Chinese were to mount an armed invasion of California, land a million soldiers on the beaches of San Francisco and storm inland? They would gain little. There are no silicon mines in Silicon Valley.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Emotion is so pervasive and helpful that asking a human to describe what he feels like in a given moment can be a bit akin to asking a fish what it feels like to be wet. And yet, learning to recognize and label emotion is crucial for the behavioral investor because emotions so dramatically impact the way that we evaluate risk, think about money and experience time tradeoffs.
The Behavioral Investor
Daniel Crosby
Although sci-fi is replete with conscious human-like AI that shares human values, it’s clear by now that the space of possible alien minds is vastly larger than that. So if we stumble into an intelligence explosion rather than steer carefully, it’s likely that the resulting superintelligence will not only replace us, but also lack anything resembling human consciousness, compassion or morality – something we’ll view less as our worthy descendants than as an unstoppable plague.
The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI
Max Tegmark
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