How many pages is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?

233 pages, which is about 70,000 words and 4½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.

Is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies worth reading?

We score it 6.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.87 out of 5 from 75 ratings, which counts for 6.4; at about 4½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.1 for being short.

How long is the If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies audiobook?

About 8 hrs, estimated from the 70,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Name: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky

4½ hrsto read

6.5worth it

At your speed≈ 4½ hrs

Pages233

Audiobook≈ 8 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

233 pages works out to roughly 70,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 4½ hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.87 out of 5, from 75 ratings.

Worth-it score 6.5/10 — Worth the time. Readers 6.4 (Hardcover's 3.87★ from 75 ratings) + length 0.1 = 6.5. How the score works →

How long does it take to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is 233 pages, or roughly 70,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	6½ hrs
Average	250	4½ hrs
Fast	400	3 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 8 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?: About 4½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies runs 233 pages, roughly 70,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 6½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
How many pages is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?: 233 pages, which is about 70,000 words and 4½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies worth reading?: We score it 6.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.87 out of 5 from 75 ratings, which counts for 6.4; at about 4½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.1 for being short.
How long is the If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies audiobook?: About 8 hrs, estimated from the 70,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

"Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next. For decades, two signatories of that letter—Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares—have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences…

will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us—and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn’t even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies."-- Provided by Amazon

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