Nick Bostrom

You could gradually sort of become some form of, you know, radically post-human super being that might be hard to differentiate from a purely synthetic AI.

You could gradually sort of become some form of, you know, radically post-human super being that might be hard to differentiate from a purely synthetic AI.

Yeah, so we can...

Yeah, so we can...

only speculate.

only speculate.

I mean, we don't know much about post-human psychology or their motives, but I mean, there are several potential reasons, motivations.

I mean, we don't know much about post-human psychology or their motives, but I mean, there are several potential reasons, motivations.

You could ask why it is that we humans, with our currently more limited technology, create computer simulations, and we do it for a variety of purposes.

You could ask why it is that we humans, with our currently more limited technology, create computer simulations, and we do it for a variety of purposes.

People have, for thousands of years, tried to create imaginary worlds that people can experience, be it through theater or literature, and more recently through virtual reality and computer games.

People have, for thousands of years, tried to create imaginary worlds that people can experience, be it through theater or literature, and more recently through virtual reality and computer games.

this can be for entertainment or for cultural purposes.

this can be for entertainment or for cultural purposes.

You also have scientists from creating computer simulations to study various systems that might be hard to reach in nature, but you can sort of create a little computer simulation of them, and then you study how the simulation behaves.

You also have scientists from creating computer simulations to study various systems that might be hard to reach in nature, but you can sort of create a little computer simulation of them, and then you study how the simulation behaves.

So there could be entertainment reasons, there could be scientific reasons.

So there could be entertainment reasons, there could be scientific reasons.

Maybe for these posthumous, they might be interested in

Maybe for these posthumous, they might be interested in