Nick Bostrom
16 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2024 by Nick Bostrom · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Aug 7, 2024 positive
Bostrom: Technological maturity will enable direct control over mental states
“In a solved world, in utopia, the utopians could have, like, extreme levels of motivation and immersion and subjective purpose. That's easy. That's like a check mark. And more broadly, you can go through different plausible human values. And for some of them, …”
Aug 7, 2024 neutral
Bostrom: I have never described myself as an Effective Altruist
“So, I mean, I've never described myself
As an effective altruism, I think my, ah, some of my ideas have had an influence there, and in particular yeah, try to think more about the sort of the macro strategic aspects of our strivings, as opposed to just the loc…”
Aug 7, 2024
Aug 7, 2024 neutral
Bostrom: Simulation Hypothesis Expands the Space of Realistic Future Possibilities
“The simulation hypothesis expands the space of sort of realistic possibilities and the realist, like the space of realistic futures. You might think if you're living just in a simple materialistic universe, you die. That's the end. Your brain rots. There is no…”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Bostrom predicts superintelligence could compress 20,000 years of research into a flash
“So all these sort of science fiction-like technologies that maybe we would develop if we had like, you know, 20,000 years for human scientists to work for it, we probably will have a cure for aging and perfect virtual reality and space colonies and all the res…”
Aug 7, 2024 neutral
Bostrom: AI has not truly succeeded until all intellectual labor is automated
“AI, you know, the goal of AI has all along been not just to automate a few specific things, but to provide the technology that allows us to automate all tasks, right? Like AI hasn't really succeeded until all intellectual labor can be done by machine.”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 19, 2026
Bostrom: Recursive self-improvement could yield diminishing returns rather than an explosion
“It's also conceivable that even when you do get recursive self-improvement, you still might not have An intelligence explosion. It might, there might be diminishing returns at some point. Presumably there are at some point, but it could turn out that that is c…”
Aug 19, 2026
Bostrom: AI Safety Is Now Critical During Pre-Deployment Testing
“From this point onward, probably AI safety is relevant not only for deployment but also during training and evaluation. Like these models might be quite powerful even before they are sort of released to the general public. So that's not the only point at which…”
Aug 19, 2026 neutral
Bostrom: AI existential risk assessment remains unchanged over past two years
“I'd say about the same overall. I mean, there's like some disconcerting signs, but also some positive signs advances in, like, some insights are being gained into how these systems work, and how one can steer them, and so forth. So how to tote that all up, I'd…”
Aug 19, 2026
Bostrom: Current Compute Might Suffice For Superintelligence If Algorithmic Bottlenecks Clear
“Turns out there is like some big hobbling that we have unwittingly, like some, something we were doing wrong that just made these systems way less efficient than they could be. And when somebody figures out how to remove that, like maybe the current Compute is…”
Aug 19, 2026 positive
Bostrom: Digital Mind Ethics Rank With AI Alignment And Misuse Risks
“Moral patienthood in digital minds, I think is, is a very important, I would put it up there amongst, so that was the technical alignment problem, big, Important challenge. Like there's the misuse risks of like the governance of AI, like getting that right. Hu…”
Aug 19, 2026 positive
Bostrom: Current AI Models Plausibly Possess Forms Of Subjective Experience
“I think it's plausible that some AI models have some forms of subjective experience by now. Obviously there's a lot of uncertainty about this, but it does seem That it is efficiently likely that I think we should start to do some things for the sake of these A…”
Aug 19, 2026
Aug 19, 2026 neutral
Bostrom: AI Strategy Space Expands As Cognitive Capacity Grows
“Well, I think we are starting to see the added dimensions of the alignment challenge that open up once you have systems that are sophisticated enough because the space of possible strategies that you can pursue is a function of your cognitive capacity. Like yo…”