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Nick Bostrom

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Nick Bostrom (born Niklas Boström on 10 March 1973) is a Swedish philosopher. He is a professor at the University of Oxford, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute, and the author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.

Further reading

Khatchadourian, Raffi (2015) The doomsday invention: will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction?, The New Yorker, November 16.

External links

Nick Bostrom. Official website.

Radio Bostrom. Audio narrations of Bostrom’s academic papers.

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astronomical waste | crucial consideration | existential risk | information hazard | oracle AI | simulation argument | singleton | technological completion conjecture | unilateralist’s curse | vulnerable world hypothesis

Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today

peterhartree27 Mar 2024 11:23 UTC
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4 comments1 min readEA link
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De­con­struct­ing Bostrom’s Clas­sic Ar­gu­ment for AI Doom

Nora Belrose11 Mar 2024 6:03 UTC
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Mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (Part 1: In­tro­duc­tion and cu­mu­la­tive risk) - Reflec­tive altruism

BrownHairedEevee3 Jul 2023 6:33 UTC
74 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
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Nick Bostrom should step down as Direc­tor of FHI

BostromAnonAccount4 Mar 2023 14:39 UTC
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Crit­i­ciz­ing Bostrom Stifles Hon­est Dis­cus­sions and En­courages More Attacks

Ives Parr27 Jan 2023 3:06 UTC
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“How to Es­cape from the Si­mu­la­tion”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon126 Jan 2023 15:12 UTC
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Do bet­ter, please …

Rohit is a Strange Loop15 Jan 2023 11:32 UTC
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Wok­ism, re­think­ing pri­ori­ties and the Bostrom case

Arturo Macias13 Jan 2023 11:18 UTC
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Reflec­tion on Bostrom’s com­ments as a woman in EA

lilly13 Jan 2023 10:07 UTC
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My Thoughts on Bostrom’s “Apol­ogy for an Old Email”

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆12 Jan 2023 21:35 UTC
155 points
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A per­sonal re­sponse to Nick Bostrom’s “Apol­ogy for an Old Email”

Habiba Banu12 Jan 2023 19:11 UTC
226 points
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CEA state­ment on Nick Bostrom’s email

Shakeel Hashim12 Jan 2023 17:08 UTC
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[Linkpost] Nick Bostrom’s “Apol­ogy for an Old Email”

pseudonym12 Jan 2023 4:55 UTC
16 points
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[Opz­ionale] ‘Con­sid­er­az­ioni cru­ciali e filantropia sag­gia’, di Nick Bostrom

EA Italy12 Jan 2023 3:11 UTC
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Can “sus­tain­abil­ity” help us safe­guard the fu­ture?

simonfriederich24 Nov 2022 14:02 UTC
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Ques­tions about and Ob­jec­tions to ‘Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds’ (2020)

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
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Sum­mary of ‘Shar­ing the World With Digi­tal Minds’ by Carl Shul­man and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
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An Au­dio In­tro­duc­tion to Nick Bostrom

peterhartree29 Aug 2022 8:49 UTC
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“Ex­is­ten­tial Risk” is badly named and leads to nar­row fo­cus on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

freedomandutility22 Aug 2022 20:25 UTC
38 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Ra­dio Bostrom: Au­dio nar­ra­tions of pa­pers by Nick Bostrom

peterhartree8 Aug 2022 15:26 UTC
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Nick Bostrom—Som­mar i P1 Ra­dio Show

juliakarbing12 Jun 2022 18:04 UTC
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Types of in­for­ma­tion hazards

Vasco Grilo29 May 2022 14:30 UTC
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Civ­i­liza­tional vulnerabilities

Vasco Grilo22 Apr 2022 9:37 UTC
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Nick Bostrom: An In­tro­duc­tion [early draft]

peterhartree31 Jul 2021 17:04 UTC
38 points
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Astro­nom­i­cal Waste: The Op­por­tu­nity Cost of De­layed Tech­nolog­i­cal Devel­op­ment—Nick Bostrom (2003)

james10 Jun 2021 21:21 UTC
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0 comments8 min readEA link
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Differ­en­tial tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment

james25 Jun 2020 10:54 UTC
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7 comments5 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom on Sam Har­ris’ podcast

Hauke Hillebrandt19 Mar 2019 11:21 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(samharris.org)

“The Vuln­er­a­ble World Hy­poth­e­sis” (Nick Bostrom’s new pa­per)

Hauke Hillebrandt9 Nov 2018 11:20 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)

‘Cru­cial Con­sid­er­a­tions and Wise Philan­thropy’, by Nick Bostrom

Pablo17 Mar 2017 6:48 UTC
30 points
4 comments24 min readEA link
(www.stafforini.com)

Robert Wiblin: Mak­ing sense of long-term in­di­rect effects

EA Global6 Aug 2016 0:40 UTC
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0 comments17 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Nick Bostrom – Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Preven­tion as Global Priority

Zach Stein-Perlman1 Feb 2013 17:00 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.existential-risk.org)