70 Quotes by Nick Bostrom

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

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

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

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.

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

There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance of a thermonuclear Armageddon or of a great war fought with other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, laying waste to civilization.

Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.

There are some problems that technology can’t solve.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.3.