Deep Utopia : life and meaning in a solved world / Nick Bostrom.
| Author/creator | Bostrom, Nick, 1973- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Washington, DC : Ideapress Publishing, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | ix, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Monday. Hot springs postponed -- Argumentum ad opulentium -- Walls of sausages -- Keynes's prediction -- New needs and niceties -- Social projects -- The desire for more -- Perfect or imperfect automation -- A simple three-factor model -- Paradoxes of a Malthusian world -- Up and down on different timescales -- Excellence -- Disequilibria -- Economies of scale -- Running out of time -- To the baths -- Feodor the Fox -- Outro -- |
| Contents | Tuesday. A stay of exequies -- Recapitulation -- Our cosmic endowment -- Technological maturity -- Coordination -- Prudential barriers -- Axiological contours -- Metaphysics -- What machines can't do for you -- Impossible inputs -- Feodor the Fox -- |
| Contents | Wednesday. Full unemployment -- Brawl, steal, overeat, drink, and sleep late -- Templates of otium -- Leisure culture -- Message from the Dean -- Wild eyes? -- The purpose problem revisited -- Case study 1: Shopping -- Case study 2: Exercising -- Case study 3: Learning -- Case study 4: Parenting -- From shallow to deep redundancy -- Paradox of progress -- A five-ringed defense -- Signs and sightings -- The upholstery of dreams -- Fictional characters -- Feodor the Fox -- |
| Contents | Thursday. Interstitial possibilities -- Plasticity -- Autopotency -- Agentic complications and luck -- Hopeful trajectories -- Taxonomy -- The redundancy concern -- Wouldn't it be boring to live in a perfect world? -- Subjective feelings versus objective conditions -- Never feeling bored? -- Affective prosthetics -- Monkeying with human nature -- Fitting response views -- How interesting is Shakespeare? -- The 162,329th table leg -- Aesthetic neutrinos? -- A hundred years of yellow -- Complexity in the observer -- The roots of our desire for interestingness -- Intrinsification -- Critical playful spirit -- Scale exercises -- Interestingness: contained versus contributed -- Small people, Big World -- Parochialism -- Time and Becoming -- The space of posthumanity -- Implications of three of the etiological hypotheses -- Implications of the learning & exploration hypothesis -- Spirited kaleidoscopes -- The scenic route? -- Identity, survival, transformation, discounting -- Timesuits -- Outriders -- Professor interruptus -- Assignments and assignations -- Feodor the Fox -- |
| Contents | Friday. Postmortem -- Pure pleasure -- On fools and paradises -- Radically exotic beings -- Extreme parochialism -- A visit to the navigator's cabin -- Some remarks on metaphilosophy -- Fulfillment -- Richness -- Purpose -- A fair deal -- The Exaltation of ThermoRex -- The bag is empty -- |
| Contents | Saturday. Arrival -- Opening remarks -- Punditry and profundity -- Grab bag concept -- The account of Thaddeus Metz -- Its implications for utopian meaning -- Slack -- Role -- Orientation -- Enchantment -- Motto -- Motivation -- The speculative backstory -- Meaning as encompassing transcendental purpose -- Concordance with some observations -- Meaning crisis -- A note on Nietzsche -- Sisyphus variations -- A subjectivity-objectivity spectrum -- How meaning could be discovered and shared -- Categories of possible meaning -- The meaning of life is -- Exit -- The graveyard -- Carnival -- Poetry slam -- Summer air -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |
| Abstract | "If the AI transition goes well, human labor becomes obsolete. Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. We will thus enter a condition of 'post-instrumentality', in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose. In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence? What gives meaning to life? What do we do all day? 'Deep Utopia' shines a new light on these old questions, giving us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future."--from the back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-519) and index. |
| Language | In English. |
| ISBN | 9781646871643 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1646871642 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781646871766 |
| ISBN | 1646871766 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | BF778 .B67 2024 | ✔ Available | Want This? |