Around the time I finished reading Homo Deus, Life 3.0 seemed like the logical next read based on how my thoughts were forming about humans in the landscape and history of cosmos. ( Read my review here: http://deepthig.blogspot.com/2020/06/homo-deus-notes.html ). I had seen Life 3.0 in the reading list published by Barrack Obama in Dec 2018. My key take aways : 1) "Matter" Matters. The narration touches upon popular questions around AI like jobs, politics, goals, purpose and consciousness. It throws light on the Moravec's paradox which shows how humans find it easier to detect a face and hard to do long mathematical computations whereas as we cracked the latter problem for machines to solve before we could solve the former. The simple reason for it is the vast number of physical hardware in our brain that is devoted to the former operation which is required for the achievement of the goals. Moravec's landscape also provides guidance to the type of skills that are l