#bostrom — Public Fediverse posts

“I like that sentence and think it’s true.” is a phrase that still lives rent-free in my head. Every time it repeats, #NickBostrom sounds more like a moron.

To repeat a #MichelleObama quote which also lives rent free in my head, "These people are not that smart."

Remember that every time someone in charge claims to be the end-all be-all of anything, or tries to talk outside of their field of actual experience, especially when the #philosophy guy all the rich kids like starts talking about #genetics like he knows shit. :blobcoffeeraccoon:

#Bostrom #EffectiveAltruism

There is a #paper doing rounds allegedly disproving #ancestorsimulationtheory

The pop mis-interpretation asserting that because if computational limitations, it's impossible to create such a #universe #simulation

But the paper itself has a solution
"Meta Theory if Everything"...
... And it has been done time now that the #physics #materialists have been on shaky ground, with #quantum fields being the underlying fabric with a sprinkling of #consciousness

#bostrom

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22950

"OpenAI's o1 just hacked the system"

Frankly, I am not surprised at this given the well known issue of machine maximisation functions within typical misalignment around stated goals. Have we learned nothing from the #Bostrom #PaperclipProblem ? In a way, it's still impressive that we've now ACHIEVED it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgbqcF4sBY

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AlignmentProblem #Alignment #Misalignment #Hacking

#EricSchwitzgebel - Does #Consciousness Challenge the Limits of #Materialism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-iSVqtrF40

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Metaphysics #Physics #SimulationTheory #NickBostrom #Bostrom #Soul #CosmicConsciousness #Dualism #Idealism #PropertyDualism #ImmanuelKant #Kant #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

‘Before It’s Too Late, Buddy’

This is what happens when you spend two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley “apocalypse cult.”

by @xriskology

"This scenario is eerily similar to what Yudkowsky is advocating: military actions that could cause a genocidal nuclear catastrophe, if necessary to keep the techno-utopian dream alive."

#TESCREAL #Longtermism #EA #EffectiveAltruism #Yudkowsky #AGI #AGIPanic #ExistentialRisk #Bostrom #Häggström #Musk #SiliconValley

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/

Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic

#Nick #Bostrom has explored the possibility of engineering "radically enhanced" human beings by genetically screening embryos for "desirable" traits, destroying those that lack these traits, and then growing new embryos from stem cells.

This engineered person might be so different from us — so much more intelligent — that we would classify them as a new, superior species: a #posthuman. According to Bostrom's 2020 "Letter From Utopia," posthumanity could usher in a techno-utopian paradise marked by wonders and happiness beyond our wildest imaginations.

Referring to the amount of pleasure that could exist in utopia, the fictional posthuman writing the letter declares: "We have immense silos of it here in Utopia. It pervades all we do, everything we experience. We sprinkle it in our tea."

Central to the #longtermist #worldview is the idea of #existential #risk, introduced by Bostrom in 2002. He originally defined it as any event that would prevent us from creating a posthuman civilization, although a year later he implied that it also includes any event that would prevent us from colonizing space and simulating enormous numbers of people in giant computer simulations (this is the article that #Musk retweeted).

More recently, Bostrom redefined the term as anything that would stop humanity from attaining what he calls "#technological #maturity," or a condition in which we have fully #subjugated the #natural #world and #maximized #economic #productivity to the limit — the ultimate Baconian and capitalist fever-dreams.

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/

#DavidKipping and #LexFridman - Do we live in a #Simulation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u201Bb0ev88&ab_channel=LexClips

#Science #Philosophy #Logic #Statistics #Probability #Bayesian #BayesianPrior #BayesianPriors #BayesianStatistics #SimulationHypothesis #TheSimulationHypothesis #AncestorSimulation #Universe #SimulatedUniverse #Bostrom #NickBostrom