Homo Deus

so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to save us from premature death,

Precisely because we have some choice regarding the use of new technologies, we had better understand what is happening and make up our minds about it

It knows what my blood pressure was every time I read the morning newspapers, and how my dopamine level plummeted while I watched the evening news.

Free-market capitalism has a firm answer. If economic growth demands that we loosen family bonds, encourage people to live away from their parents, and import carers from the other side of the world – so be it.

How many wolves live today in Germany, the land of the Grimm brothers, Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf? Less than a hundred.

Truth be told, the experiencing self and the narrating self are not completely separate entities but are closely intertwined. The narrating self uses our experiences as important (but not exclusive) raw materials for its stories. These stories, in turn, shape what the experiencing self actually feels.

Yet what would happen once technological progress makes it possible to reshape and engineer our desires themselves?

you can build a machine that embodies this algorithm and follows it automatically.

Some humans are simply superior to others, and when human experiences collide, the fittest humans should steamroll everyone else.