Lex Fridman PodcastNick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83
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- Released
- March 26, 2020
- Duration
- 1h 56m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS: Nick's website: https://nickbostrom.com/ Future of Humanity Institute:
Books:
• Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/2JckX83 Wikipedia:
- 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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Lex Fridman
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83 explores Nick Bostrom on Simulations, Superintelligence, and Humanity’s Future Choices Lex Fridman and Nick Bostrom explore the simulation hypothesis and Bostrom’s simulation argument, which claims at least one of three possibilities must be true: almost all civilizations die out pre‑maturity, mature civilizations don’t run simulations, or we are almost certainly in a simulation.
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