{"id":142365,"date":"2025-12-14T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142365"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:00:19","slug":"rational-optimist-sci-fi-writer-liu-cixin-on-why-hell-be-happy-if-ai-surpasses-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142365","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rational optimist\u2019: sci-fi writer Liu Cixin on why he\u2019ll be happy if AI surpasses humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLiu Cixin is the most influential contemporary science fiction writer in China. He is best known for his trilogy that starts with The Three-Body Problem, for which he won a Hugo Award for best novel in 2015. The trilogy earned international acclaim and has been adapted for television in both Chinese and English.<br \/>\nBorn in 1963 and raised in Shanxi, Liu started his working life as a computer engineer at a power plant in the central province. Inspired by British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke, Liu&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336312\/rational-optimist-sci-fi-writer-liu-cixin-why-hell-be-happy-if-ai-surpasses-humans?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLiu Cixin is the most influential contemporary science fiction writer in China. He is best known for his trilogy that starts with The Three-Body&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}