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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 6 Jahren

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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

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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