Books Brothers

Sapiens is a 416-page angle on the story and history of humankind from 6M years ago to today. Harari wraps it all up: our psychology, technology, religion, economy, politics… Nobody puts things quite the way Yuval does - he’s got some weird/deep thoughts and spits some fire trash talk at basically everything. We guarantee this book will make you stop and think about who we are and where we come from. Plus it’s got plenty of #CavemanTalk and #YuvalSlamPoetryThis book will make you think differently about the way your BRAIN and your SOCIETY operate. This Books Brothers summary will do ALL that and make you laugh.We do our best to share the author’s perspective. If you’ve read it before, you’ll know the book better. If you haven’t read it yet, you’ll love it so much you'll buy the bookEnjoy!-Andrew and JD

Some of the smartest people out there say a SUPERINTELLIGENT AI is an existential risk. Lets get some deeper understanding, and Bostrom is the perfect machine-impersonating author to give us the basics while capturing magnitude of the potential problem. How likely is a Superintelligence? When might it happen? What’s the history of AI technology and are we excited about nothing? Would a superintelligence try and make itself smarter?  It it tried to take over (whoa) what MIGHT it do? High-probability take-over-the-world is on the early menu. #robotpopulations #serversruntheworld

WHAT IS LIFE?  HOW DOES IT KEEP CREATING ITSELF?If you hatch out of your egg first, should you try and chuck your brothers and sisters out of the nest?Dawkins tells us a great story about these teeny little replicators inside everyone one of our trillion cells.  #NatureIsMetal #WhenaManLovesaWoman

The deep psychology about "why we all can’t just get along?"1. Emotions come first, reasoning comes second2. We all have different moral tastebuds3. We are 90% chimp and 10% hiveish beeUsing insights from evolutionary psych to explain why we always join groups, take sides and fight. this book covers 17 years of Haidt’s research into moral psychology, and as it turns out, morality has a lot to do with determining human behavior, and understanding our divided world today.

Aerial-flyover of the story and history of humankind from 6M years ago to today. Important and foundational themes for all of humanity: psychology, technology, religion, economy, politics… Cognitive Revolution 70,000 years agoAgricultural Revolution 12,000 years agoScientific Revolution 500 years agoIndustrial Revolution 250 years agoWhats next??