Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere.

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Nick's website: https://nickbostrom.com/
Future of Humanity Institute:
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Books:
Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/2JckX83
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsda...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...

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OUTLINE:
0:00 Introduction
2:48 Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument
12:17 Technologically mature civilizations
15:30 Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations
19:08 Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations
22:03 Consciousness
26:27 Immersive worlds
28:50 Experience machine
41:10 Intelligence and consciousness
48:58 Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument
1:01:43 Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation
1:05:53 Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning
1:23:02 Elon Musk
1:25:26 What's outside the simulation?
1:29:52 Superintelligence
1:47:27 AGI utopia
1:52:41 Meaning of life

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