Nick Bostrom
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So I think it will be a very fundamental transformation of
So I think it will be a very fundamental transformation of
of the human condition.
of the human condition.
And it's hard to reach.
And it's hard to reach.
You can, some people say, well, the industrial revolution, and I think you can learn something from parallels to that, but maybe you need to go back more like to the origination of Homo sapiens in the first place, or maybe to the emergence of life.
You can, some people say, well, the industrial revolution, and I think you can learn something from parallels to that, but maybe you need to go back more like to the origination of Homo sapiens in the first place, or maybe to the emergence of life.
I think it would be more at that level rather than like, you know, the mobile internet or the cloud or one of these other sort of recent buzzwords that people get excited about.
I think it would be more at that level rather than like, you know, the mobile internet or the cloud or one of these other sort of recent buzzwords that people get excited about.
Yeah, it could be the big unlock, right?
Yeah, it could be the big unlock, right?
Like that's kind of...
Like that's kind of...
So I think, I mean, so in my earlier work and like this book, Superintelligence, past gender strategies came out in 2014 that focused a lot on, well, identifying this prospect that we will eventually get to AGI and superintelligence.
So I think, I mean, so in my earlier work and like this book, Superintelligence, past gender strategies came out in 2014 that focused a lot on, well, identifying this prospect that we will eventually get to AGI and superintelligence.
And then also the risks associated with that, including existential risks.
And then also the risks associated with that, including existential risks.
Because at the time, this was very much a neglected topic that nobody was taking seriously, certainly nobody in academia.
Because at the time, this was very much a neglected topic that nobody was taking seriously, certainly nobody in academia.