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Nick Bostrom - Simulation and Superintelligence
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 · Loading views
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere.
Books mentioned
Timestamps
- 2:48 - Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument
- 12:17 - Technologically mature civilizations
- 15:30 - Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations
- 19:08 - Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations
- 22:03 - Consciousness
- 26:27 - Immersive worlds
- 28:50 - Experience machine
- 41:10 - Intelligence and consciousness
- 48:58 - Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument
- 1:01:43 - Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation
- 1:05:53 - Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning
- 1:23:02 - Elon Musk
- 1:25:26 - What's outside the simulation?
- 1:29:52 - Superintelligence
- 1:47:27 - AGI utopia
- 1:52:41 - Meaning of life