Podcast

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.

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  EPISODE LINKS:
  Nick’s website: https://nickbostrom.com/
  Future of Humanity Institute:
  
• https://twitter.com/fhioxford
  
• https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
  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
  
  This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.
  
  Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  
  OUTLINE:
  00:00 - Introduction
  02:48 - Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument
  12:17 - Technologically mature civilizations
  15:30 - Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations
  19:08 - Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations
  22:03 - Consciousness
  26:27 - Immersive worlds
  28:50 - Experience machine
  41:10 - Intelligence and consciousness
  48:58 - Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument
  1:01:43 - Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation
  1:05:53 - Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning
  1:23:02 - Elon Musk
  1:25:26 - What’s outside the simulation?
  1:29:52 - Superintelligence
  1:47:27 - AGI utopia
  1:52:41 - Meaning of life

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