Radio Bostrom
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
AI Creation and the Cosmic Host (2024)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:There may well exist a normative structure, based on the preferences or concordats of a cosmic host, and which has high relev...
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (2024)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Bostrom’s latest book, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, will be published on 27th March, 2024. It’s available to pre-order no...
The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity (2016)
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom, Thomas Douglas & Anders Sandberg.Abstract:In some situations a number of agents each have the ability to undertake an initiative ...
In Defense of Posthuman Dignity (2005)
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Positions on the ethics of human enhancement technologies can be (crudely) characterized as ranging from transhumanism to bio...
A Primer on the Doomsday Argument (1999)
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Rarely does philosophy produce empirical predictions. The Doomsday argument is an important exception. From seemingly trivial...
Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society (2022)
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman. Draft version 1.10.Abstract:AIs with moral status and political rights? We'll need a modus vivendi, and it’s ...
Base Camp for Mount Ethics (2022)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Draft version 0.9Abstract:New theoretical ideas for a big expedition in metaethics.Read the full paper:https://nickbostrom.com/papers/...
The Transhumanist FAQ (2003)
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form d...
The Future of Human Evolution (2004)
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Evolutionary development is sometimes thought of as exhibiting an inexorable trend towards higher, more complex, and normativ...
Predictions from Philosophy? (1997)
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:The purpose of this paper, boldly stated, is to propose a new type of philosophy, a philosophy whose aim is prediction. The p...
[French Translation] Letter from Utopia (2008)
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom. Translated by Jill Drouillard. Abstract:The good life: just how good could it be? A vision of the future from the future.Read the ful...
What is a Singleton? (2005)
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:This note introduces the concept of a "singleton" and suggests that this concept is useful for formulating and anal...
Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer?
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom. Abstract:Human capital is an important determinant of individual and aggregate economic outcomes, and a major input ...
Letter from Utopia (2008)
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:The good life: just how good could it be? A vision of the future from the future.Read the full paper:https://nickbostrom.com/...
Technological Revolutions: Ethics and Policy in the Dark (2006)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Technological revolutions are among the most important things that happen to humanity. Ethical assessment in the incipient st...
Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate (2008)
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu.Abstract:Are we good enough? If not, how may we improve ourselves? Must we restrict ourselves to traditional meth...
How Vulnerable is the World? (2021)
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom and Matthew van der Merwe.Abstract:Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far wo...
Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy (2014)
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Within a utilitarian context, one can perhaps try to explicate [crucial considerations] as follows: a crucial consideration i...
Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development (2003)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:With very advanced technology, a very large population of people living happy lives could be sustained in the accessible regi...
Are You Living In A Computer Simulation? (2003)
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom. Abstract:This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinc...
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2011)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky.Abstract:The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues. These questions relate b...
Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge (2011)
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may c...
The Evolutionary Optimality Challenge (2021)
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, and Matthew van der Merwe.This is an updated version of The Wisdom of Nature, first published in the book Human Enha...
Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing (2008)
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:When water was discovered on Mars, people got very excited. Where there is water, there may be life. Scientists are planning ...
The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics (2006)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord.Abstract:In this article we argue that one prevalent cognitive bias, status quo bias, may be responsible for much of the ...
Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority (2012)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Existential risks are those that threaten the entire future of humanity. Many theories of value imply that even relatively sm...
The Fable of The Dragon Tyrant (2005)
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Recounts the Tale of a most vicious Dragon that ate thousands of people every day, and of the actions that the King, the Peop...
Sharing the World with Digital Minds (2020)
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Carl Shulman & Nick Bostrom.Abstract:The minds of biological creatures occupy a small corner of a much larger space of possible minds that coul...
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (2019)
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By Nick Bostrom.Abstract:Scientific and technological progress might change people’s capabilities or incentives in ways that would destabilize civi...