Andrei
Nice to get ideas about what to do, but it's not well organized or written. It also advocates rather harsh methods at times. It also suggests that one should repeat the same command until it is followed. Look for ideas about what is possible and then find better ways to train the same behaviors elsewhere.
Racist, narrow, ahistorical, shallow, and lazy.
This book is disappointing and intentionally mismarketed. I doubt most people would read it after an honest description. The vast majority of the book is just looking at the same Greek myths over and over again reinterpreting them in absurd and ahistorical ways. There's just about one chapter to do with technology or machines here. Otherwise it's only myths and only Greek myths, as if there was nothing else in the ancient world.
Pretending that nothing else exists and that you can write and market a book about general ideas shared across societies like this and only use Greek myths is shameful and frankly racist. Even the small amount of text to do with China and India (a few paragraphs) implies that all their ideas on machines came from the West.
The book is so committed to its narrow minded and racist ideology that it goes to absurd lengths. Even the most trivial examples, of say, Japanese manga are carefully chosen to be those that are set in the West, and designed to make it seem as if the genre originated there. A cursory look on Wikipedia shows one how ridiculous this is.
I won't even comment on how misguided and poorly researched the last chapter that attempts to connect with AI is.
Poorly written and poorly argued. I wanted to like this book but it turned out to be repetitive and without substance. Sad, because we do need a much better discussion around metrics.
Exposing the sadism of the US-Mexico border and those who would rather see people die than cross it.
This book suggests way too many negative interactions along with outdated dominance theory.
Leaves out all of the hard parts around security, monitoring, long-term maintenance, zero-downtime refactoring, etc. all while building a trivial app. The use of some random non-AWS services for core functionality like Auth0 instead of Cognito is particularly grating and disappointing.
After building up the others so much with their otherworldly bullets, an incredibly disappointing and predictable ending.
I love the topic and agree with the message. The book is too lightly researched and relies far too much on the same anecdotes over and over again to make the same repetitive points. Would have been great at 100 pages instead of 300.
Like watching a Bond movie. Irrational characters doing crazy things for no reason but there's a lot of action.
This book twists facts, makes them up, and then completely baseless speculation as fact about the past in order to push the author's story & agenda. There's no evidence for most of the story in the book. For example, the idea that we have any clue about the daily agenda, thoughts, skills, and education of some hominid 2 million years ago or 50,000 years ago is absurd. Facts everywhere are twisted to fit the story, like the history of colonialism which is whitewashed to be seen as a natural consequence of the scientific prowess of the colonizers. Or the fact that racism today is downplayed as cultural rather than based on skin color.
A laundry list of well-known facts buried in a disjointed and aimless narrative following a boring narrator.
Very interesting and extremely well researched. A complete mess when it comes to the actual writing and structure of the book.
Should have been advertised as a children's book. It's not bad as one. As a field guide, it's kind of boring and shallow.
The best argument for higher taxes and a wealth tax. An absurd waste of money while most of society suffers.
Explains why both extreme environmentalists and free-market extremists sound crazy, how we got here, and why it's so hard to make any meaningful progress.
While the original was an adventure story the sequel is driven by really terrible technobabble. Everything that made the first book good is gone.
