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"Love is the ultimate manifestation of the Universe" - a human would answer. "Would you kill in the name of Love?" the incredibly powerful AI asks a human at some point, as if with it's power it couldn't analyze the entirety of the human history and make a perfect model of human behavior and accurately predict what exactly people can do in the name of love, as well as other feelings such as greed, envy, lust, hunger for power etc.
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The rest fall so much short of what I expected! The book takes itself very seriously, and has this vibe of sad melancholy raising very 'deep' questions on pretty much every page, revolving around religion, technology augmentation, in a clichéd dystopian society that, as genre demands, depicted in a way that you don't really want to live in, and (oh my goodness please NOOO) human feelings and love, that the AI tries to understand in a series of cheesy dialog.
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Too bad it all takes around 5% of the book. Accurate scientific descriptions of dying stars and the universe evolution are beautiful and captivating, and the brief stories about scientists in pursuit of extraterrestrial life are also very unusual and exactly what I was looking for. And to some extent you can feel it in his book. Being a John's subscriber on YouTube I decided to give it a go because unlike most sci-fi writers he seems to be really into hard science and cosmology. Accurate scientific descriptions of dying stars and the universe evolution are beautiful and captivating, and the brief stories about scientists in pursuit of extraterrestrial life ar I don't really know if it's fair to write a critical review just because I expected something completely different.
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I don't really know if it's fair to write a critical review just because I expected something completely different.