Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are some quotes from the book "The Coming Wave" by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar. For the context Mustafa Suleyman is CEO of Microsoft AI , co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI. Waves Follow a single seemingly immutable law: it gets cheaper and easier to use and ultimately it proliferates, far and wide. The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: AI and synthetic biology. Uber was impossible without the smart-phone, which itself was enabled by GPS, which was enabled by satellites, which were enabled by rockets, which were enabled by combustion techniques, which were enabled by language and fire. Technologies are ideas, and ideas cannot be eliminated. What if we could grow what we wanted locally? what if our supply chain was just biology? If AI represents the automation of information, robotics is the automation of the material. (Life + Intelligence) X Energy - Modern Civilization. The Leader in AI "will become the ruler of the world". The id...

Quotes from Viktor E Frankl's book of "Man's Search for Meaning". He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any HOW. Yes, a man can get used to anything. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now. Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Logotherapy bases its technique called "paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes. The cue to cure is self-transcendence. Nothingbutness: Man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions or the product of heredity and environ...