Philosophy of Mind Quote by Nick Bostrom

“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

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

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

“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.”

— Nick Bostrom

“The Google search engine is, arguably, the greatest AI system that has yet been built.”

— Nick Bostrom

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

“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

“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].”

— Nick Bostrom

“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

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

— Nick Bostrom

“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

“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