A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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Yuval Noah Harari 出版社: Random House 出版年: 2024-9-10 ISBN: 9780593734223 页数: 528 装帧: Hardcover 定价: GBP 99.99 原作名: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have ...
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.
Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.
Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today. Born in Israel in 1976, Harari...
Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today. Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002 and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and media, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.
中信版 《智人之上:从石器时代到AI时代的信息网络简史》 第五章: 共108条注释 其他版: 126条注释。 还没算没有注释的内容~ 注释[108]对应注释[126] Victor Yasmann, “Grappling with the Computer Revolution,” in Soviet/East European Survey, 1984–1985: Selected Res...
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1 有用 绛筠 2025-08-15 19:25:26 法国
翻来覆去,掰开揉碎的观点:1. 信息化的增长不会带来真理的发现,与其增长智慧,更多是增长难以控制的权力的杠杆。2. so信息网络的构建和传递方式非常重要,而现在的信息商业化模式很畸形,包括免费的信息交易获利于科技资本,跨国的信息剥削没有税收政策限制。3. 算法倾向于暴力,煽动与歧视,扁平对话,增加民族与社会裂痕。4. Totalitarian surveillance regimes 很恐怖。 5... 翻来覆去,掰开揉碎的观点:1. 信息化的增长不会带来真理的发现,与其增长智慧,更多是增长难以控制的权力的杠杆。2. so信息网络的构建和传递方式非常重要,而现在的信息商业化模式很畸形,包括免费的信息交易获利于科技资本,跨国的信息剥削没有税收政策限制。3. 算法倾向于暴力,煽动与歧视,扁平对话,增加民族与社会裂痕。4. Totalitarian surveillance regimes 很恐怖。 5. So民主体制的自我纠错机制和去中心化系统的相互监督非常重要。6. 反技术决定论,如何使用AI、人类命运掌握在人类手里。 很多奇妙的历史类比能刺激想象力,算是一个披着AI专家的皮的历史学家的鲜明风格。 (展开)
1 有用 starrynight 2025-08-06 17:58:09 重庆
前半部分回溯人类历史中信息网络变化,新技术的出现让大规模民主和totalitarianism变为可能;后半部分集中讨论1)互联网、AI如何改变信息网络:new agent,new power以及其导致的问题;2)民主和totalitarianism政治如何应对。最终takeaway是要建立strong self- correcting mechanism来防止AI导致毁灭的结果,which req... 前半部分回溯人类历史中信息网络变化,新技术的出现让大规模民主和totalitarianism变为可能;后半部分集中讨论1)互联网、AI如何改变信息网络:new agent,new power以及其导致的问题;2)民主和totalitarianism政治如何应对。最终takeaway是要建立strong self- correcting mechanism来防止AI导致毁灭的结果,which requires cooperation。 两点我个人比较印象深刻的地方:1)information is not truth,more information may impose order;2)权力并不是人类唯一感兴趣的东西,所以丛林法则并不是realism 但是真的有点啰嗦,不过素材、论据比较丰富 (展开)
1 有用 ◽Deeeee 2025-01-21 19:51:42 浙江
Yuval可能是当下全球最火的历史学家了吧…很喜欢这本书的动机,书名的口气很大,但确实也能结合各种宏观微观的史料把观点表述的有理有据。THE KANTIAN NAZI 这一节很精彩,用纳粹的案例推演义务论和功利主义的逻辑谬误,以证明人类根本就不可能define ultimate goals。每一章节的小标题取得很好,简洁而形象,很会讲故事。btw这本书阅读体验很好,每天早起看1h,正好两周看完哈哈... Yuval可能是当下全球最火的历史学家了吧…很喜欢这本书的动机,书名的口气很大,但确实也能结合各种宏观微观的史料把观点表述的有理有据。THE KANTIAN NAZI 这一节很精彩,用纳粹的案例推演义务论和功利主义的逻辑谬误,以证明人类根本就不可能define ultimate goals。每一章节的小标题取得很好,简洁而形象,很会讲故事。btw这本书阅读体验很好,每天早起看1h,正好两周看完哈哈哈哈哈 (展开)
2 有用 Redcastle 2024-12-27 17:14:58 山东
苏联的部分太有参照性了
1 有用 野斑马 2024-09-26 17:09:24 上海
第一部分讨论“信息”的定义和历史。感觉跟《未来简史》类似,过于务虚、形而上,不怎么合我胃口。(好在举例比较新颖,就当八卦集锦来读了。) 但与后者不同的是,在阅读过程中能猜到这些废话不完全是无的放矢的,可以期待这些是为后面讨论AI作铺垫。因而未来简史亦似可视为本书后两部分的铺垫。 第二部分在讨论AI,或曰“异类智能”(按作者的说法)的一些特征时,有了些许新意;第一部分及上一本书中作者不厌其烦反复讨... 第一部分讨论“信息”的定义和历史。感觉跟《未来简史》类似,过于务虚、形而上,不怎么合我胃口。(好在举例比较新颖,就当八卦集锦来读了。) 但与后者不同的是,在阅读过程中能猜到这些废话不完全是无的放矢的,可以期待这些是为后面讨论AI作铺垫。因而未来简史亦似可视为本书后两部分的铺垫。 第二部分在讨论AI,或曰“异类智能”(按作者的说法)的一些特征时,有了些许新意;第一部分及上一本书中作者不厌其烦反复讨论的“有机类智能”(尤其是“人类智能”),及基于故事(信息)的"intersubjective reality",也被拿来跟“无机类智能”作详细比较。 第三部分“计算机政治”中,作者终于提出一些观点。不过也承认,鉴于AI及其基础——计算机——还在婴儿期中,任何预测都是很不成熟的,只求引发一些思考 (展开)