Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom began thinking of a future full of human enhancement, nanotechnology and cloning long before they became mainstream concerns. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere. Nick is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future

Get a constantly updating feed of breaking news, fun stories, pics, memes, and videos just for you. Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. Bostrom’s extended argument presupposes a historical relation between a species of posthumans and contemporary humans, such that (1) posthumans are objectively real beings (1 st order), (2) contemporary humans are simulated beings (3 rd order), while (3) there is a I don't want to complain too much, it was still a great guest and pretty good episode.

Leave a comment on the official reddit thread. To quote Nick: “Now most […] Prof_Nick_Bostrom Founder|Future of Humanity Institute 23 points 24 points 25 points 4 years ago FHI, CSER, and MIRI are all excellent organizations that deserve support, IMO. Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strate gies is a systematic and scholarly study of the possible dangers issuing from the development of artificial in telligence. This isn't a 20 year old argument, it's at least a 400(descartes)-1500(plato) year old thought experiment. An introduction to cognitive psychology will give an overview qualitative and quantitative theories on human cognition and an introduction philosophy of consciousness will give an introduction to the more fundamental issues related to development of AI. We work out some of them here. Maybe if Joe prepared and made sure he really understood simulation theory beforehand this would have been a better podcast. Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. Or maybe if Bostrom brought some crayons. A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we're building right now, driven by thinking machines.
The Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center was founded in 2015 with the knowledge that, to truly circumvent the threats posed by AI, the world needs a concerted effort focused on tackling unsolved problems related to AI policy and development.The Governance of AI Program (GovAI), co-directed by Bostrom and Allan Dafoe, is the primary research program that has evolved from this center. Regarding your questions about MIRI, I would say that Eliezer has done more than anybody else to help people understand the risks of future advances in AI. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. The u_Prof_Nick_Bostrom community on Reddit.

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Bostrom is not a bad philosopher but more a sensationalist than a strong developer of theory. Nick Bostrom - XRisk - Superintelligence, Human Enhancement & the Future of Humanity Institute - Duration: 51:10.

Bostrom approaches both the inevitable and the speculative using the tools of philosophy, bioethics and probability.

Nick basically explains brain in vat and pretends like it is his own invention by dressing it up with new tech ie synthetic brains and post humans or agi.

Alternatively, find out what’s trending across all of Reddit on r/popular. Passionate about something niche? Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. We then develop some of the affinities between Bostrom’s naturalistic theogony and more traditional theological topics. He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: "Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make." Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers Strategies – book by Nick Bostrom. Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and polymath with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy.