Peace on Earth
by Stanisław Lem, David Marantz · first published 2016
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Why HN recommends it
A sharp, imaginative science fiction novel that takes on futurology. It is a favorite pick for readers seeking more than Asimov-style imagination.
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Pff, Asimov. I don't understand why people hold him in such high esteem, his imagination was flat and lacking. Want to read some real futurology and prime-cut sci-fi? Check out Stanislaw Lem. (eg. Peace on Earth -- it will blow your mind).
on “Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014” ↗Another related sci-fi pointer and one of my favourite books: Stanislaw Lem's 1987 novel "Peace on Earth" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel) ).
on “Let’s Play War: Could war games replace the real thing?” ↗Reminds me of a fantastic (in many senses) book of Stanislaw Lem... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88313.Peace_on_Earth
on “Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning” ↗…generally considered part of the West [*] (in contrast to, say, China or Japan), so Stanislaw Lem is western author. (Outside of that, i would definitely recommend Lem, esp. Fiasco, The Invincible, or Peace on Earth.) [*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
on “Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?” ↗Check out Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem.
on “Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter” ↗There is a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem titled Peace on Earth which touches this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel) > The evolution of artificial intelligence has allowed major world powers to sign a rather curious treaty: the Moon is…
on “The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons” ↗…technology.[2] The work was strongly influenced by work at UCLA and the University of Michigan during that period, as well as science fiction authors Stanislaw Lem (in novels The Invincible in 1964 and Peace on Earth in 1985), Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The first public presentation of the concept by that name was at the American Vacuum Society meeting in Anaheim in 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
on “Flying microchips size of a sand grain could be used for population surveilance” ↗I think I may have found it on the wikipedia page for nanotechnology in fiction: > The 1984 novel Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem tells about small bacteria-sized nanorobots looking as normal dust (developed by artificial intelligence placed by humans on the Moon in the era of cold warfare) that has later came to…
on “Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away” ↗…laugh-through-tears reading "Any human with above room temperature IQ can design a utopia" in this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ add-on: and "when time goes to the sea" reminded me of Peace on Earth of Stanislaw Lem, about unchecked technological evolution and where it leads to..
on “I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup” ↗