![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the arguments of Superintelligence apply regardless. And while those arguments tend to be laughable, there are certainly significant technical challenges that may put it decades or even centuries away. Many people have strong intuitions or tortured philosophical arguments - often throwing around the word “subjectivity” like defensive flak - that “true AI” is fundamentally impossible. Bostrom is less preoccupied with a particular source of runaway intelligence than characteristics or realities common across all sources. It must be said that, although it is often framed as a book on AI, Superintelligence casts a far broader net. The moment it was published Superintelligence became the seminal text for those seriously concerned with the threat of artificial intelligence. But in the last decade Bostrom has shot to some prominence not for his explorations of multiverse theory and the anthropic principle but for his far more practical work on existential risks to our species. Nick Bostrom is one of my favorite academic philosophers beyond pairing rigor with audacity, he’s one of the few to grasp and explore the philosophical avenues opened up by modern scientific understanding. ![]()
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