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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (original 2017; udgave 2017)

af Yuval Noah Harari (Forfatter)

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Forfatteren analyserer vores nuværende kultur, etisk, kulturelt og teknologisk og opstiller et fremtidsscenarie for det 21. århundrede - fra hvordan vi overvinder døden, til hvordan vi skaber kunstig intelligens - og han stiller det fundamentale spørgsmål: Hvor går mennesket hen herfra?.
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Titel:Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow af Yuval Noah Harari (2017)

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Definitely not as good as Sapiens. I find many of his arguments speculative and not very convincing.
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  corliss12000 | Mar 16, 2024 |
Thanks Mandy. I’ve long been a data tragic and was once (20 years ago) a champion of Open Access but despite Yuval Noah Harari’s confident propositions about possible futures, the bulk of this book seems to me to be misguided.

I have no quarrel with the notion that meaning (in life) is determined by fictions or that humans will soon be routinely biologically enhanced, but setting up the technically determinist straw man that we are all just algorithms and that maximum efficiency is a desirable objective is not only wrong and stupid but part of an American hegemony despite his Oxford/Israeli background. . The straw man relies on the false idea that there is a perfection in mathematics and hence computational calculation that is without error. First, all mathematical systems are closed systems that tend to break down at their margins and for this reason they are unreliable. Second, what Yuval Noah Harari refers to as dataism assumes clean data when in reality all data sets include varying percentages of dirty data and consequently are not nearly as useful as he proposes regardless of AI. Garbage in - garbage out. True, humans are also unreliable (perhaps more so) but there are far more dimensions to this problem (known in AI as the alignment problem) than Yuval Noah Harari cares to explore.

The best way I can provide an example is to tell a story from the days when, in my working life, I was part of an international Metadata Standard initiative. Without metadata standards there would be no machine understanding. In our quieter moments, we would often talk about the implications of what we were creating and of the influence of different cultural dimensions. True to type, the Americans saw commercial advantage, the Germans thought the Standard needed to be properly finished before it was used, the Europeans saw equity of access, and the Australians and the Nords just went with whatever happened. We were all puzzled that the Latin countries showed so little interest. One day, the head librarian in Nicaragua told me the following story…

There was a rich man in Nicaragua who collected books. He loved arranging his books in his vast library. He let it be known that when he died, he was going to leave his library and lots of money to the Library of Nicaragua. Eventually he died and sure enough his books, with lots of money, were bequeathed to the Nicaraguan Library. If this had happened in almost any of the countries previously mentioned, the books would have been put in boxes and taken to cataloguers who would have checked them against existing holdings, perhaps placed a ‘gift of’ bookplate in the best copies, and the books would have eventually sat beside similar books in the library’s shelves. Not in Nicaragua. Instead, the Library used a portion of the money to build a new wing onto the Library that resembled the rich man’s library. Then, very carefully, each book was moved into exactly the same places the rich man had arranged his books. What was important to the Nicaraguans was not the books or the content of the books but the man’s relationship to his books.

This story, as well as the importance of bottom-up capacities and the so-called irrationality of doing things the hard way will be lost on machines, but they are critical to what it means to be human.

I think I’ll shelve this book between Huizinga’s [b:Homo Ludens Ils 86|61758891|Homo Ludens Ils 86 (International Library of Sociology)|J. Huizinga|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658976606l/61758891._SY75_.jpg|97376790] and Rovelli's [b:Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution|55801224|Helgoland Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution|Carlo Rovelli|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1610434232l/55801224._SY75_.jpg|85224137]. ( )
  simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |
The ubiquitous public discourse about the moral, technical, and ethical implications of artificial intelligence serves as a pivot point in, and may actually wake people up to, the baffling future that we are in fact facing today. Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and social philosopher, has done an excellent job recapping a broad range of the outré possibilities humankind faces today. The fact that he calls his book "Homo Deus" gives a broad hint about some of the things we may see in that future.

Harari briefly treats the prevalent fictions in earlier historical epochs, from our hunter-gatherer roots through to today to trace how these fictions grew and how completely they dominated human thought. First Nature, next God, and finally human beings themselves came to rule the world and to give meaning to the universe. But this historical era won’t last forever, he says. It will give way to a future which features much more extensive human-computer interchange, where machines will know us better than we know ourselves.

Consider: humans already have a broad range of artificial implants in their bodies. They regulate our heart rate, they help motor-compromised people use their limbs, blind people see shades of light, and formerly deaf people hear. Nanobots are currently being used in cancer detection and treatment. We can measure our pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and glucose level with something we simply wear—no implant required. Harari is not alone in thinking that medicine is trending even today toward upgrading the health of healthy people, in addition to its traditional role in treating disease.

Harari spends a significant portion of his book describing the relationship between brain activity and emotion. It’s an acknowledged fact neuroscientists have detected the relationship between areas of the brain and such functions as emotion, perception, language, and so on. Harari hangs his hat on the link between brain processes which we can observe and their corresponding emotions and states of consciousness, and the claim that these process are not free at all, but probabilistic. Here, however, is a quote from one third of the way through the book:

“However, nobody has any idea how a congeries of biochemical reactions and electrical currents in the brain creates the subjective experience of pain, anger or love. Perhaps we will have a solid explanation in ten or fifty years. But as of 2016, we have no such explanation, and we had better be clear about that.”

Nevertheless, the author arrives very quickly at the conclusion that not only are deterministic neurochemical reactions responsible for your choices and outlook, but soon, a network of computers, or super computers, will compile all your Likes, hates, opinions, reviews, and arguments in cyberspace, and build an algorithm of you. You’ll be able to compare two job opportunities, alternative places to live, even choose between potential mates…you won’t have to do your own soul searching, the algorithm will do it for you.

And compilation of everything that I am encompasses and presupposes the most objectionable assertion in the book: that our experiences will mean nothing if we don’t upload them for the world to see. Keeping secrets from the network of information, or otherwise limiting the free exchange of it, becomes the worst crime you can commit. I’m sure I’m just being damned old fashioned when I find this concept a ghastly affront. I cannot see a future in which I agree that I don’t feel anything unless somebody else tells me I do.

Where are the medical advancements headed? Harari sees a possible future where humans who can afford it are given the ability to see in much broader range of the EM spectrum, or can comprehend what it’s like to be a bat, or a dolphin, or an ant. These are the superhumans of the title. One grand thematic contribution of his book: the belief that human life and emotion and freedom will eventually become obsolete (along with free elections and freely consumed goods and capital) in favor of the recognition that organisms are algorithms (already scientific dogma today), and that Earthly existence (or existence anywhere in the universe) will simply be the rapid, efficient, and free processing of information.

This is not a difficult book to read, although long sections of it require you to accept statements that cannot be verified. Harari even says this. This is a visionary piece which deals with human trends and possibilities. As such, it is a highly useful and thought-provoking document. Harari remains one of the more clear-sighted and accessible cultural seers currently available to us. Take this volume up, definitely, if current trends and their possible futures interest you.

https://bassoprofundo1.blogspot.com/2024/02/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari.html ( )
  LukeS | Feb 5, 2024 |
Every bit as fascinating as Sapiens. Loved the very last part of the book with the three questions! Professor Harari must be the most interesting man in the world. ( )
  dhenn31 | Jan 24, 2024 |
I knew I was in dangerous territory when Dr. Harari suggested we give up climbing mountains and visiting museums to re-discover ourselves, just as my wife and I were whisking ourselves home from a long vacation in the Mediterranean climbing mountains, visiting archaeological sites, and, er, visiting museums.

No point in doing that, claimed Dr. Harari. You’d learn a lot more by strapping on an Apple Watch and sending a saliva sample to 23andme for a full DNA analysis.

And he did, after all, have a point.

My wife will dispute this but I agree that today corporations know much more about us than we do ourselves. They remember all our purchases, where we’ve gone, what we like and most likely how long we’ll live.

We have reached a point in our history when intelligence is decoupling from consciousness and there is some doubt about the value of consciousness to the prosperity and even future of mankind.

Would I go as far as to agree with Dr. Harari that individuals have zero economic and military value to society? That humanism has reached the limits of its utility and liberty is a farce?

This era of big data has a few good things going for it. Data can help us predict the next influenza epidemic and save many lives. It can also help us anticipate where disease is likely to strike us or our family members.

Driverless cars will some day eliminate the gross over-capacity of cars on the road, reduce traffic fatalities, and significantly reduce pollutants.

I thought his stinging remarks on contemporary democracy entirely correct. Voters the world over are feeling power draining away from them and don’t know why. Our participatory democracy cannot keep pace with change. Our parliaments cannot process the data its getting and translate that into meaningful laws. We cannot generate the kind of cooperation across jurisdictions to cope with climate change, or the automation of the workplace, or the concentration of wealth. Our parliaments are obsolete.

It’s not that our politicians are corrupt so much as our voters ignorant of cybernetics and biology and incapable of forming any informed opinions.

There are two solutions on the horizon and neither of them feel at all comfortable. One is a kind of techno-humanism which relies on technology to evolve Homo sapiens into a homo deus, a superior human.

The other is a religion of data where our function as humans is to feed data flows, connect all our data engines, and accept that humans are no longer the apex of creation. Data religion contends that your every word and action are part of an enormous data-flow and when you are disconnected from it your life seems empty and meaningless.

Connect to the data-flow and let algorithms discover meaning and tell you what to do.

“Once we humans lost our functional importance to the network we may discover that we are not the apex of creation after all,” Harari posits. At that point when we have comprehensive Internet-of-Things we can spread our wings and let the data-flows take us across the galaxy perhaps even the universe.

Neither of the two futures Harari envisions for humanity are a foregone conclusion. There may be different futures ahead.

He says that science has coalesced over the opinion that all organisms are algorithms and life is really data processing. Do we believe it?

Well, Harari may have successfully trashed religion and the dogma of individualism, but for my money he has not eliminated the presence of evil in creation, nor has he decided the war between complexity and entropy in the universe.

Evil is perceptible but does not seem to follow the rules or predictability of an algorithm.

As for entropy, Harari’s analysis suggests that data-flows are ultimately more powerful than entropy. The only evidence for this in universe, for my money, is creation on Earth itself. Entropy has the upper hand in the rest of the universe. Complexity and data-flows are equally likely fairy tales about the progress of our universe.

Harari’s book was a very good read. Very provocative and entertaining. It should change the discussion on many issues including public policy on job creation, welfare, governance, and education. ( )
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