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A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave ...

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Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn...

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Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to...

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Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the st...

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Superintelligence: Paths

Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review b...

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Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed ...

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Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

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Nick Bostrom

Philosopher

Born: 1973-03-10

Died: N/A

Nick Bostrom (born 10 March 1973) is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on anthropic bias, the ethics of human enhancement, superintelligence, and existential risk.More