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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    Bostrom’s last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), sparked a global conversation on AI that continues and widens to this day. That book, which despite its academic style became a New York Times bestseller, focused on what would happen if AI goes wrong.But what if AI goes right? Suppose we succeed in developing superintelligence safely and that we make good use of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Anthropic Bias

    Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information"--turns out to be a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Making Sense

    Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

    by Sam Harris ...
    Narrated by Sam Harris, David Chalmers, Anil Seth, Thomas Metzinger, Timothy Snyder, Glenn C. Loury, Robert Sapolsky, Daniel Kahneman, Nick Bostrom, David Krakauer0, Max Tegmark1, David Deutsch2 ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 26 min

    Fromthe bestselling author of Waking Up and TheEnd of Faith**, a collection of the best conversationsfrom his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.**“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —SamHarrisSamHarris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring... ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Red Emperor

    'the most vivid and compelling biography of Xi published to date' Financial Times

    by Michael Sheridan ...
    Narrated by Daniel Loh York ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during the Cultural ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Our Final Invention

    Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

    by James Barrat ...
    Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Second Machine Age

    Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee ...
    A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rebooting AI

    Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

    by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis ...
    **Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a robust artificial intelligence that can make our lives better.“Finally, a book that tells us what AI is, what AI is not, and what AI could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough.” —Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and author of Deep Thinking* ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Our Mathematical Universe

    My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Frighteners

    A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

    by Peter Laws ...
    The Frighteners is a bizarrely compelling, laugh-out-loud exploration of societies’ fascination with the dark, spooky, and downright terrifying side of life. The author--self proclaimed “sinister minister”--opens the book by reflecting on how he went from a horror-obsessed atheist to a God-fearing Christian and then reconciled his love of the macabre with his new faith. In the chapters that follow ... Read more

    $16.99 USD