Nick Bostrom

It would be possible for us to achieve any mental state or physiological state that we want.

It would be possible for us to achieve any mental state or physiological state that we want.

I alluded to this with the exercise pill, right?

I alluded to this with the exercise pill, right?

But similarly with various mental traits that now take effort to develop.

But similarly with various mental traits that now take effort to develop.

If you want to know higher mathematics now, you have to spend hours reading textbooks and doing math exercises and like there is

If you want to know higher mathematics now, you have to spend hours reading textbooks and doing math exercises and like there is

That's the only way to, if you want to understand higher mathematics, you have to put in the effort, and it's hard work and takes a long time.

That's the only way to, if you want to understand higher mathematics, you have to put in the effort, and it's hard work and takes a long time.

But at technological maturity, I think there would be neurotechnologies that would allow you to sort of, as it were, download the knowledge directly into your mind.

But at technological maturity, I think there would be neurotechnologies that would allow you to sort of, as it were, download the knowledge directly into your mind.

Maybe you would have nanobots that could infiltrate

Maybe you would have nanobots that could infiltrate

your brain and slightly adjust the strength of different synapses or maybe it would be uploaded and you would just kind of have a super intelligence reconfigure your neuronal weights in different ways so that you would end up in a state of knowing higher under mathematics without having to do the long and hard studying and similarly for other things so you do end up in this

your brain and slightly adjust the strength of different synapses or maybe it would be uploaded and you would just kind of have a super intelligence reconfigure your neuronal weights in different ways so that you would end up in a state of knowing higher under mathematics without having to do the long and hard studying and similarly for other things so you do end up in this

I think, where there are shortcuts to any outcome and our own nature becomes fully malleable.

I think, where there are shortcuts to any outcome and our own nature becomes fully malleable.

And the question then is, what gives structure to human lives?

And the question then is, what gives structure to human lives?