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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What life-changing experience did journalist Sally Adee have when she used a battlefield simulator?
(a) Her brain without self doubt.
(b) A life-like virtual reality experience.
(c) An increased ability to learn.
(d) A change in her personality.

2. Humans can do whatever they choose and are only constrained by what?
(a) Their understanding of technology.
(b) Their access to education.
(c) Their power in society.
(d) Their own ignorance.

3. What must humans do to compete with non-conscious intelligence?
(a) Actively upgrade their minds.
(b) Pursue medical upgrades to be superhuman.
(c) Have a computer chip implanted in their brains.
(d) Learn sophisticated algorithms.

4. What revolutionary strategy did Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane use to select the best baseball players?
(a) He posted information on Twitter.
(b) He used a computer algorithm developed by economists.
(c) He developed the system of player statistics.
(d) He hacked the competition's database.

5. How are scientists able to predict a person's desires and decisions?
(a) By using brain scanners.
(b) By determining personality traits.
(c) By learning about a person's past experiences.
(d) By reading facial expressions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device is the U.S. army developing to improve a soldier's decision-making process?

2. What is the danger humans face as intelligence and consciousness are uncoupled?

3. Harari claims that "life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer, and ____________."

4. The rise of humanism meant there was less focus on God and more focus on what?

5. What experiment do scientists conduct in robo-rat laboratories?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experiments are the U.S. military currently studying in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

2. Politicians and economists insist growth is vital for what three reasons?

3. What experience changed journalist Sally Adee's life after she tested the battlefield simulator in Ohio?

4. How does the "more stuff" credo affect society?

5. Why was liberalism criticized by the poor?

6. According to Harari, what two concepts are being decoupled?

7. What is FOMO and why is it a problem?

8. What is the crucial problem that may prevent humans from finding employment?

9. What did the computer Watson do that changed the perception of artificial intelligence?

10. With the decoupling of intelligence and consciousness, what is the risk to humans?

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