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Book: 20251126 to 20251210, "AI Rising" by Randy W. Kirk & Brian Wang

This book is boring. Nothing new in it. 20251126 - FOREWORD 20251126 - Introduction 20251126 - Chapter 1 - What is Super Intelligence and Why Does it Matter To some extent, I think that the point of singularity was passed 300 years ago, with James Watt's steam engine. 20251126 - Chapter 2 - Real-World Applications and Niches The author is quite naive about the effect of AI. AI and human both are part of the system. If AI is so smart and powerful, that would make human weak. Good times create weak men. Extremely good times create extremely weak men. 20251126 - Chapter 3 - The Economic Boom of Super Intelligence 20251126 - Chapter 4 - Life in an SI World. 20251126 - Chapter 5 - The Dark Side of AI: Navigating the Shadows in an Abundant Future 20251126 - Chapter 6 - Individual Survival Strategies 20251126 - Chapter 7 - Become Unrecognizable or Disappear The ASI Disruption It's large companies vs small companies. The importance of asset will keep rising. That's why huge compani...

Book: 20250930 to 20251209, "The Big Picture" by Sean M. Carroll

Part One: Cosmos 20250930 - 1. The Fundamental Nature of Reality 20251001 - 2. Poetic Naturalism 20251002 - 3. The World Moves By Itself 20251003 - 4. What Determines What Will Happen Next? 20251003 - 5. Reasons Why Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. p41 The book tries to analyze philosophy using psychology. That's amazing. 20251004 - 6. Our Universe Astronomers estimate that the last dim star will wink out around 1 quadrillion(10^15) years from now. p52 After about 1 googol(10^100) years, all of the black holes in our observable universe will have evaporated into a think mist of particles, which will grow more nad more dilute as space continues to expand. p53 If we build a Dyson Sphere to absorb the radiation around a black hole, that could provide enough energy to support our civilization. 20251004 - 7. Time’s Arrow In equilibrium, time has no arrow. p58 Is this the reason that we age slower if eat less? If we can easily make a pile of ash bac...