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The Most Immoral Book of the Modern Era

Revisado: 08-18-23

Data has positives and negatives. Revolution is an appropriate word, since it highlights that there are drawbacks. But this book subverts the drawbacks and lauds data and AI with every chance it gets, overlooking the fact that data and AI is used for evil. They want every piece of data possible so they can make money and keep it. By wanting privacy or not wanting to subject yourself to algorithms that are built to ruin lives, you’re evil in their eyes. They straight up defend companies not paying taxes and just say that they should use algorithms better so that they don’t get caught or so they can avoid the media storm. Like it’s so sad how much they love money and don’t care about humanity.

Basically reads like a “Hey, you’re a money grubbing manager or business owner, right? Well this how you can use surveillance of consumers to get richer.” Replace the word with data in this book for surveillance and you’ll see how evil these authors are. All they care about is data and business survival. Quite sad. They ignore monopolies on data and don’t care that the big companies are using their data control to destroy capitalism. Are Facebook or Google really going to share their data? No, they’re going to sell it or keep it for themselves. Clearly these authors don’t care about that at all either.

Google and Facebook are heroes and Snowden is a bad bad man for wanting privacy because the data collection was good. It did good. You don’t like data? You’re just an idiot who doesn’t realize the good it did. Like seriously. What the heck did I just listen to?

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Ignores Causation vs Correlation

Revisado: 08-02-23

Mostly good but makes big jumps in logic at times. Basically, there are too many speculative conclusions to consider this a true book of science. Although the ideas are certainly interesting.

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Sagan is spectacular!

Revisado: 08-02-23

With all the advancements in technology, Sagan’s guesses just keep getting proved right. Truly a genius.

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Goes Off Topic

Revisado: 08-02-23

Talks about statues, racism, government grants, tax credits, Elizabeth Warren, capitalism, Trump, white guilt, and what not in what appears to be a way to pad for time. It ignores birth rates, abortion numbers and its historical relevance to the discussion, and plenty more. But we get to hear an hour about mountaineers and another big chunk of time on some story about Catte talking to a publisher, talking about blankets, and her partner. Yay!

This happens repeatedly. I think I heard more about Catte’s partner and daily driving around Virginia than actual history. I’m surprised Catte didn’t add in a portion of how an idea arrived because Catte was on the toilet pushing out a turd and was reminded of something.

I could write a better and more informative book in a day while looking at Wikipedia. Really poorly done. What history is here is good and mostly accurate but, overall, it reminds me of a dump. It’s a turd of a book with a slight coating of real eugenics history.

Performance is okay. Most things are pronounced correctly. Literally this books only saving grace.

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Author Lacks Humility

Revisado: 07-24-23

There is a difference in reading Hawking or another humble scientist versus this author. The cockiness of the author is off putting. Science is filled with mistakes and this author spends substantially more time on success than failures, as if it hides the numerous flaws AI has had through the last seventy years (it covers some flaws, but not in significant depth). Learning from mistakes makes for a better story! And it helps others interested in the field from making those same mistakes.

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