Deep Utopia
Life and Meaning in a Solved World
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Deep Utopia
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Narrated by:
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David Timson
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By:
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Nick Bostrom
About this listen
*Gold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024*
Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise New York Times bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.
But what if things go right? Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete—a “post-instrumental” condition in which human efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. Furthermore, human nature itself becomes fully malleable.
The challenge we confront here is not technological but philosophical and spiritual. In such a “solved world”, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What would we do and experience?
Deep Utopia—a work that is again decades ahead of its time—takes the listener who is able to follow on a journey into the heart of some of the profoundest questions before us, questions we didn’t even know to ask. It shows us a glimpse of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.
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Critic reviews
“This is a wondrous book. It is mind-expanding. It is poetic. It is moving. It is funny. The writing is superb. Every page is full of ideas.” —Russ Roberts, President of Shalem College
“Fascinating.” —The New York Times
“Yeah.” —Elon Musk
Bostrom’s unusual writing style and tendency to go on tangents may be hard to follow for some readers, and at times got in the way of the broader message of the book. Be prepared for weird anecdotes and analogies whose purpose is only clear in retrospect.
True to form, Bostrom’s work is intellectual, fascinating, and on point. If you’re looking to sink your teeth into a book that is quite heavy on philosophy with some deep concepts from other fields mixed in too, this is the book for you.
I’d recommend this book only to readers who are already a fan of Bostrom, as it’s quite dense. If you’re looking to “dip your toe in” Bostrom’s fountain of knowledge, I recommend first starting with “Superintelligence”. It’s a book which is a bit heavier on computer science but much easier to grapple with philosophically.
Excellent, but niche: best for hardcore Bostrom fans
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