Nick Bostrom

Quotes

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

• “The universe is cold. Fun is the fire that melts the blocks of hardship and creates a bubbling celebration of life. It is the birth right of every creature, a right no less sacred for having been trampled on since the beginning of time.”

• “The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.”

• “Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board – contravening the Helsinki Declaration and every norm of moral decency, left, right, and center.”

• “In this situation, any feeling of gee-wiz exhilaration would be out of place. Consternation and fear would be closer to the mark; but the most appropriate attitude may be a bitter determination to be as competent as we can, much as if we were preparing for a difficult exam that will either realize our dreams or obliterate them.”

Books by Nick Bostrom in order

Books by Nick Bostrom in the order they were published, from Anthropic Bias (2002) to Deep Utopia (2024).

1. 1Anthropic BiasAnthropic Bias2002
2. 2Global Catastrophic RisksGlobal Catastrophic Risks2008
3. 3Anthropic Bias Observation Selection Effects In Science And Anthropic Bias Observation Selection Effects In Science And Philosophy2010
4. 4SuperintelligenceSuperintelligence2014
5. 5Süper Zeka; Yapay Zeka Uygulamalari Tehlikeler ve StratejileSüper Zeka; Yapay Zeka Uygulamalari Tehlikeler ve Stratejiler2019
6. 6Deep UtopiaDeep Utopia2024

Lists with books by Nick Bostrom

• Books like Global Catastrophic Risks