“If some day we build machine brains that surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. And, as the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“It now seems clear that a capacity to learn would be an integral feature of the core design of a system intended to attain… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The Google search engine is, arguably, the greatest AI system that has yet been built.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If the distance between base and apex for you is eight kilometers, then to reach my dwellings would take a million light-year ascent. The… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Lie detectors (should it prove feasible to make ones that are reliable and easy to use) could reduce the scope for deception in human… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
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