Nick Bostrom Quotes

Sweden, Philosopher
March 10, 1973

Nick Bostrom (English: /ˈbɒstrəm/; Swedish: Niklas Boström, IPA: [²buːstrœm]) is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. In 2011, he founded the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, and he is currently the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.

Also known as Professor

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

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When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

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- Progress
- Need
- Wrong Way

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

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The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

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We find ourselves in a thicket of strategic complexity, surrounded by a dense mist of uncertainty.

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Human nature is a work in progress.

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- Nature
- Progress
- Human
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

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The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.

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- Clever
- Minds
- Gap

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

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The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors’ website.

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- Library
- Research
- Website