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Superintelligence
by Nick Bostrom
488 pages2014
Computers
About This Book
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...
Reading Time Estimates
12h 26m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 57m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 23m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 134,200 wordsπ
18 days at 30 min/day
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Audiobook (1.5x)
9 hours 56 min
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14 hours 55 min
Audio 2x
7 hours 27 min
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