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My Thoughts on the Books I Read!

Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Author: Daron Acemoglu Publication Date: March 2012
2023-12-01 1 min read Sincheenz

This book is well-researched and contains a lot of information, which made it a bit difficult to keep up with at times. However, it was still a very interesting read.

The differences between extractive and inclusive political and economic systems are explained brilliantly. The book effectively demonstrates how one strategy cannot work for the entire world. The expectations of developed countries on developing and underdeveloped countries, as well as their approach to poverty, is a very difficult problem to solve. There are no simple solutions and what works in one place, cannot work in another place.

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21 Lessons for 21st Century

Author: Yuval Noah Harari Publication Date: August 2018
2023-09-12 3 min read Sincheenz

When I came across a snippet of an interview with Yuval Noah Harari on YouTube, where he discusses the drawbacks of AI and how it would render people ineffective and their jobs obsolete in the future, it greatly annoyed me. As a technophile, I thought to myself, “Here is another celebrity making a fuss about something he doesn’t comprehend.” I felt he was underestimating the magnitude of our achievements and being shortsighted regarding what Large Language Models could mean for the world as a whole.

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