#20 - Nick Bostrom | Life and Meaning in an AI Utopia
What would life look like in a fully automated world? How would we derive meaning in a world of superintelligence? Today's Win-Win episode is all about utopias, dystopias and thought experiments, because I'm talking to Professor Nick Bostrom. Nick is one of the world’s leading philosophers - he's a leading thinker on the nature of consciousness, AI, catastrophic risks, cosmology… he’s also the guy behind the Simulation Hypothesis, the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, the seminal AI book Superintelligence, …he even inspired this video of mine!
Thanks to Igor for joining me in this one, give him a follow.
Off into the hypotheti-sphere we go…
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
01:42 - Why shift focus to Utopia?
03:31 - Different types of Utopias
11:40 - How to find purpose in a solved world?
18:31 - Potential Limits to Technology
22:34 - How would Utopians approach Competition?
30:24 - Superintelligence
34:39 - Vulnerable World Hypothesis
39:48 - Thinking in Superpositions
41:24 - Solutions to the Vulnerable World?
46:34 - Aligning Markets to Defensive Tech
48:43 - Digital Minds & Uploading
52:25 - Consciousness & AI
55:08 - Outro
Links
♾️ Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
♾️ Vulnerable World Hypothesis
♾️ Future of Humanity Institute
Credits
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree & Igor Kurganov
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt