{"product_id":"deep-utopia-life-and-meaning-in-a-solved-world","title":"Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World","description":"\u003cb\u003eGold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Books 2024, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Independent Press Awards 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBostrom's previous book, \u003ci\u003e Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies \u003c\/i\u003e(OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e--a work that is again decades ahead of its time--takes the reader 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nick Bostrom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46335146000620,"sku":"9781646871643","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781646871643.jpg?v=1743632544","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/deep-utopia-life-and-meaning-in-a-solved-world","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}