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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

Released Thursday, 26th March 2020
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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

Thursday, 26th March 2020
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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.

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EPISODE LINKS:Nick's website: https://nickbostrom.com/Future of Humanity Institute:- https://twitter.com/fhioxford- https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Books:- Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/2JckX83Wikipedia:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_indifference- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk

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Here's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:00:00 - Introduction02:48 - Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument12:17 - Technologically mature civilizations15:30 - Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations19:08 - Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations22:03 - Consciousness26:27 - Immersive worlds28:50 - Experience machine41:10 - Intelligence and consciousness48:58 - Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument1:01:43 - Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation1:05:53 - Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning1:23:02 - Elon Musk1:25:26 - What's outside the simulation?1:29:52 - Superintelligence1:47:27 - AGI utopia1:52:41 - Meaning of life

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