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Book: 20241203 to 20250529, 2nd read, "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari

1st reading:   https://chaojidigua.blogspot.com/2019/03/20180512-20171003-20180512-sapiens.html 2nd reading. Part One. The Cognitive Revolution 20241203 - 1. An Animal of No Significance Big brain is big burden. It's not that useful for individuals. But it's critical for large scale cooperation. 20241204 - 2. The Tree of Knowledge It's all about collative stories. Advertisements, money, juricial system, state, and even PUA. When "The Power of Now" says live in the present, does that help us not getting affected by those imagined stories? If we can choose not to accept those stories, can we avoid the negative side of them? What's the relationship between stories and game theory(and compound effect)? 20241206 - 3. A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities. p53 This could be the meaning of live...

Book: 20250121 - 20250505,"The story of the human body" by Daniel Lieberman

20250123 - 1. Introduction Natural selection is essentially the outcome of three common phenomena: variation(多样化), heritability(遗传), and differential reproductive success(变异). Put crudely, adaptations evolve most strongly when the going gets tough. p12 Life went easy in the past 70 years, globally. Most people forgot how cruel nature is. Mr Lieberman missed the Transition Eight: The Intelligence Revolution.(p20) What would happen when AI take away most of the jobs? Will next generation lie down and play computer games all day long? Part I: Apes and Humans 20250125 - 2: Upstanding Apes Natural selection acts most strongly not during times of plenty, but during times of stress and scarcity. p40 What would happen if AI give us permanent abundance? How important is it to walk longer distance and to free up our hands while walking? We can carry goods over long distance. Compare this to lions. The adult lions have to bring cubs and pregnant female lions to the hunting place to eat! ...