
Singularity Rising
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But what about the average person? How will the Singularity affect our daily lives?our jobs, our families, and our wealth?
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World focuses on the implications of a future society faced with an abundance of human and artificial intelligence. James D. Miller, an economics professor and popular speaker on the Singularity, reveals how natural selection has been increasing human intelligence over the past few thousand years and speculates on how intelligence enhancements will shape civilization over the next forty years.
Miller considers several possible scenarios in this coming singularity:
- A merger of man and machine making society fantastically wealthy and nearly immortal
- Competition with billions of cheap AIs drive human wages to almost nothing while making investors rich
- Businesses rethink investment decisions to take into account an expected future period of intense creative destruction
- Inequality drops worldwide as technologies mitigate the cognitive cost of living in impoverished environments
- Drugs designed to fight Alzheimer's disease and keep soldiers alert on battlefields have the fortunate side effect of increasing all of their users' IQs, which, in turn, adds a percentage points to worldwide economic growth
Singularity Rising offers predictions about the economic implications for a future of widely expanding intelligence and practical career and investment advice on flourishing on the way to the Singularity.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1: Rise of the Robots
- 1. Exponentially Improving Hardware
- 2. Where Might the Software Come From?
- 3. Unfriendly Al Terrifies Me
- 4. A Friendly Explosion
- 5. Military Death Race
- 6. Businesses' AI Race
- PART 2: We Become Smarter, Even Without AI
- 7. What IQ Tells You
- 8. Evolution and Past Intelligence Enhancements
- 9. Increasing IQ Through Genetic Manipulation
- 10. Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs
- 11. Brain Training
- 12. International Competition in Human-Intelligence Enhancements
- PART 3: Economic Implications
- 13. Making Us Obsolete?
- 14. How Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Might Impact the Economy
- 15. Inequality Falling
- 16. Preparing for the Singularity
- 17. What Might Derail the Singularity?
- 18. Singularity Watch
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
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