A deep dive into Nick Bostrom's ideas, including: existential risk, wise philanthropy, the ethics of AI, transhumanism, and the case for speeding up some investments in technology while slowing down others.

An Introduction to Nick Bostrom

14. [Coming soon] Afterword

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: <a href='https://nickbostrom.com/utopia'>https://nickbostrom.com/utopia</a> More episodes at: <a href='https://radiobostrom.com/'>https://radiobostrom.com/</a> ---

13. Letter from Utopia (2020)

By Nick Bostrom. Draft version 0.9 Abstract: New theoretical ideas for a big expedition in metaethics. Read the full paper: <a href='https://nickbostrom.com/papers/mountethics.pdf'>https://nickbostrom.com/papers/mountethics.pdf</a> More episodes at: <a href='https://radiobostrom.com/'>https://radiobostrom.com/</a>

12. Base Camp for Mount Ethics (2022)

By Nick Bostrom. Abstract: Within a utilitarian context, one can perhaps try to explicate [crucial considerations] as follows: a crucial consideration is a consideration that radically changes the expected value of pursuing some high-level subgoal. The idea here is that you have some evaluation standard that is fixed, and you form some overall plan to achieve some high-level subgoal. This is your idea of how to maximize this evaluation standard. A crucial consideration, then, would be a consideration that radically changes the expected value of achieving this subgoal, and we will see some examples of this. Now if you stop limiting your view to some utilitarian context, then you might want to retreat to these earlier more informal formulations, because one of the things that could be questioned is utilitarianism itself. But for most of this talk we will be thinking about that component. Read the full paper: <a href='https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/crucial-considerations-and-wise-philanthropy-nick-bostrom'>https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/crucial-considerations-and-wise-philanthropy-nick-bostrom</a> More episodes at: <a href='https://radiobostrom.com/'>https://radiobostrom.com/</a>

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