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- From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."
- One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?
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As a software engineer, I disagree with you on AI. Humans are inherently biased, and we are easily influenced by our emotions, our mind and our environment. However, computers are cold calculating, and doesn't do anything it isn't told to do. It is free of personal judgment (more on this in the next section) It may have inherent biases, which we can correct for. I would trust a computer to make a more fair decision than humans, as we have repeatedly seen we are inherently corrupt.
Honestly, I find religion to be a large part of the ills in our society. It teaches us to blindly follow the words of who knows who from ages ago, then interpreted and re-interpreted again and again. It has every interpreters inherent bias, and the source of truth no longer exist. In many religions, it teaches you to judge others and demonize them for being different. This is completely counter to nature, where being different is what is the basis of evolution.
Religion indoctrinates people into a belief of some truths that are anything, but objective and certainly not provable. It is neither strict enough to be clear, and it is to vague to allow humans to have corrupt interpretations. You cannot prove it, nor can you disprove it. Yet it judges, and imposes your beliefs onto others.
I'd argue then that God and religion itself is evil as it takes us away from critically thinking, and allowing our mind to follow blindly someone else's word from whatever source.
Instead, philosophy should have been our religion. Knowing ourselves, knowing our weaknesses and where our flaws are a way to help us improve it. Believing we aren't basic creatures, and above it, is the evil of this world because we are afraid of betraying our ego.
Acceptance of who we are, with all the flaws is the key to a more happy and ethical/moral life.
This is independent of religion, and you can decide to do this regardless of AI, God, religion or otherwise.
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His writings have attempted to reduce humans to base creatures that are unable to objectively navigate their owns lives and are devoid of free will. He has suggested perhaps letting AI run our lives to avoid such problems...but misses the fact AI would be programmed by the very creatures whose ability to orchestrate objective decisions doesn't exist lol.
He is attempting to break people's hearts and minds while selling it as an empowering freedom to resign yourself to having no self control and defer to collectivist authority. It is a subtle, demonic religion, that attempts to steal people from god, and enlist them in a secular army of mindless group think followers.
You decide who you are. You can discern any and all galactic truths. You can decide to love and forgive or to hate and avenge. You are capable of anything, and don't let this disgusting creature convince you otherwise!
His writings have attempted to reduce humans to base creatures that are unable to objectively navigate their owns lives and are devoid of free will. He has suggested perhaps letting AI run our lives to avoid such problems...but misses the fact AI would be programmed by the very creatures whose ability to orchestrate objective decisions doesn't exist lol.
As a software engineer, I disagree with you on AI. Humans are inherently biased, and we are easily influenced by our emotions, our mind and our environment. However, computers are cold calculating, and doesn't do anything it isn't told to do. It is free of personal judgment (more on this in the next section) It may have inherent biases, which we can correct for. I would trust a computer to make a more fair decision than humans, as we have repeatedly seen we are inherently corrupt.
Religion indoctrinates people into a belief of some truths that are anything, but objective and certainly not provable. It is neither strict enough to be clear, and it is to vague to allow humans to have corrupt interpretations. You cannot prove it, nor can you disprove it. Yet it judges, and imposes your beliefs onto others.
I'd argue then that God and religion itself is evil as it takes us away from critically thinking, and allowing our mind to follow blindly someone else's word from whatever source.
Instead, philosophy should have been our religion. Knowing ourselves, knowing our weaknesses and where our flaws are a way to help us improve it. Believing we aren't basic creatures, and above it, is the evil of this world because we are afraid of betraying our ego.
Acceptance of who we are, with all the flaws is the key to a more happy and ethical/moral life.
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As a software engineer, I disagree with you on AI. Humans are inherently biased, and we are easily influenced by our emotions, our mind and our environment. However, computers are cold calculating, and doesn't do anything it isn't told to do. It is free of personal judgment (more on this in the next section) It may have inherent biases, which we can correct for. I would trust a computer to make a more fair decision than humans, as we have repeatedly seen we are inherently corrupt.
Honestly, I find religion to be a large part of the ills in our society. It teaches us to blindly follow the words of who knows who from ages ago, then interpreted and re-interpreted again and again. It has every interpreters inherent bias, and the source of truth no longer exist. In many religions, it teaches you to judge others and demonize them for being different. This is completely counter to nature, where being different is what is the basis of evolution.
Religion indoctrinates people into a belief of some truths that are anything, but objective and certainly not provable. It is neither strict enough to be clear, and it is to vague to allow humans to have corrupt interpretations. You cannot prove it, nor can you disprove it. Yet it judges, and imposes your beliefs onto others.
I'd argue then that God and religion itself is evil as it takes us away from critically thinking, and allowing our mind to follow blindly someone else's word from whatever source.
Instead, philosophy should have been our religion. Knowing ourselves, knowing our weaknesses and where our flaws are a way to help us improve it. Believing we aren't basic creatures, and above it, is the evil of this world because we are afraid of betraying our ego.
Acceptance of who we are, with all the flaws is the key to a more happy and ethical/moral life.
This is independent of religion, and you can decide to do this regardless of AI, God, religion or otherwise.
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His writings have attempted to reduce humans to base creatures that are unable to objectively navigate their owns lives and are devoid of free will. He has suggested perhaps letting AI run our lives to avoid such problems...but misses the fact AI would be programmed by the very creatures whose ability to orchestrate objective decisions doesn't exist lol.
He is attempting to break people's hearts and minds while selling it as an empowering freedom to resign yourself to having no self control and defer to collectivist authority. It is a subtle, demonic religion, that attempts to steal people from god, and enlist them in a secular army of mindless group think followers.
You decide who you are. You can discern any and all galactic truths. You can decide to love and forgive or to hate and avenge. You are capable of anything, and don't let this disgusting creature convince you otherwise!
I would highly recommend it for certain audiences, but as I said, it's not for everyone.
As a software engineer, I disagree with you on AI. Humans are inherently biased, and we are easily influenced by our emotions, our mind and our environment. However, computers are cold calculating, and doesn't do anything it isn't told to do. It is free of personal judgment (more on this in the next section) It may have inherent biases, which we can correct for. I would trust a computer to make a more fair decision than humans, as we have repeatedly seen we are inherently corrupt.
Honestly, I find religion to be a large part of the ills in our society. It teaches us to blindly follow the words of who knows who from ages ago, then interpreted and re-interpreted again and again. It has every interpreters inherent bias, and the source of truth no longer exist. In many religions, it teaches you to judge others and demonize them for being different. This is completely counter to nature, where being different is what is the basis of evolution.
Religion indoctrinates people into a belief of some truths that are anything, but objective and certainly not provable. It is neither strict enough to be clear, and it is to vague to allow humans to have corrupt interpretations. You cannot prove it, nor can you disprove it. Yet it judges, and imposes your beliefs onto others.
I'd argue then that God and religion itself is evil as it takes us away from critically thinking, and allowing our mind to follow blindly someone else's word from whatever source.
Instead, philosophy should have been our religion. Knowing ourselves, knowing our weaknesses and where our flaws are a way to help us improve it. Believing we aren't basic creatures, and above it, is the evil of this world because we are afraid of betraying our ego.
Acceptance of who we are, with all the flaws is the key to a more happy and ethical/moral life.
This is independent of religion, and you can decide to do this regardless of AI, God, religion or otherwise.
A materialistic worldview is demoralizing at best, to people of the world.
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