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Umar Khan
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human nature is not just intrinsically moral, it’s also intrinsically moralistic, critical, and judgmental.
“to “redefine the nature of the country” by getting rid of bureaucracy and reinventing government as what he calls “a service.”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
“How can we fix a future in which algorithms replace not only vast swatches of the manual labor force, but also skilled workers like lawyers, doctors, and engineers?”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
“A 2013 Oxford University white paper, for example, forecasts that 47 percent of jobs could be eliminated by smart technology over the next two decades,20 and a 2017 McKinsey & Company report predicts that 49 percent of all the time we spend working could be automated by current technology.21”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
“What a time to be alive!” Altman says about a networked age in which what he calls “the merge” of humans and smart machines is actually happening. Even our data-rich smartphones, he warns of this imminent Singularity, “already control us.”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
“As in Russia, China has a not-so-secret two-million-person army composed mostly of government employees who flood social media with up to five hundred million pro-regime comments a year.17 The Chinese government sometimes even shuts down hostile websites using the “Great Cannon,” a tool specifically designed to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks.”
― How to Fix the Future
― How to Fix the Future
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Umar’s 2025 Year in Books
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