Nick Bostrom famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Progress #Way #Lasts
Are you living in a computer simulation?
-- Nick Bostrom

#Computer #Simulation
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Opportunity #Errors #Risk
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
-- Nick Bostrom

#People #Healthy #Way
We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Safety #Want #Problem
There are some problems that technology can't solve.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Technology #Problem #Solve
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Humanity #Lasts #Needs
We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Intelligent #Forever #Bottles
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Data #Process #Inference
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Mother #Children #Real
Itâ€™s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if weâ€™ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Powerful #Technology #Years
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Civilization #Firsts #Niche
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.
-- Nick Bostrom

#Library #Research #Digging

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