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diff --git a/content/entry/on-nick-bostrom.md b/content/entry/on-nick-bostrom.md index a95cd66..85d370a 100644 --- a/content/entry/on-nick-bostrom.md +++ b/content/entry/on-nick-bostrom.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ For those who don't know [Nick Bostrom](https://nickbostrom.com), I'll include a > > Bostrom’s academic work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He is a repeat main TED speaker and has been interviewed more than 1,000 times by various media. He has been on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and was included in Prospect’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15. As a graduate student he dabbled in stand-up comedy on the London circuit, but he has since reconnected with the heavy gloom of his Swedish roots." -Bostrom is obviously a very accomplished guy. I believe I first discovered him through his oft-misunderstood paper on the [Simulation Argument](https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf). I studied his simulation argument and its criticisms very closely. After many hours of researching criticisms and his responses to criticisms, I concluded that his argument is sound and even intuitive if you change your perspective to 4th-dimensional thinking. He adequately addressed some of the criticisms in his own responses and for those criticisms he didn't address, I was able to come up with my own responses. +Bostrom is obviously a very accomplished guy. I believe I first discovered him through his oft-misunderstood paper on the [Simulation Argument](https://simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf). I studied his simulation argument and its criticisms very closely. After many hours of researching criticisms and his responses to criticisms, I concluded that his argument is sound and even intuitive if you change your perspective to 4th-dimensional thinking. He adequately addressed some of the criticisms in his own responses and for those criticisms he didn't address, I was able to come up with my own responses. In my opinion, publishing the simulation hypothesis alone should be enough to make a name in philosophy. But Bostrom, like me, is a polymath. He's contributed ideas to many other disciplines. Instead of listing them out, I'll include another snippet from his website: @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ I'd love to see more people doing work on strategies for humanity's long-term fu I admit I haven't read all of his published papers, but I've read and understood a good number of them. There are many more I'd love to read just based on skimming them, but I don't currently have the time. I'll leave you with a few favorites from what I've read so far, in no particular order: -* [The Vulnerable World Hypothesis](http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf) -* [Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing](http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf) -* [The Future of Humanity](http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/future.html) -* [Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development](http://www.nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html) -* [Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge](http://www.nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf) -* [Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up](http://www.nickbostrom.com/posthuman.pdf) -* [Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?](https://www.simulation-argument.com/) +* [The Vulnerable World Hypothesis](https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf) +* [Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing](https://nickbostrom.com/papers/where-are-they/) +* [The Future of Humanity](https://nickbostrom.com/papers/future) +* [Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development](https://nickbostrom.com/papers/astronomical-waste/) +* [Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge](https://nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf) +* [Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up](https://nickbostrom.com/posthuman.pdf) +* [Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?](https://simulation-argument.com/) * [Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198739834) -* [The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant](http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html) -* [In Defense of Posthuman Dignity](http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/dignity.html) -* [Letter from Utopia](http://www.nickbostrom.com/utopia.html) +* [The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant](https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon) +* [In Defense of Posthuman Dignity](https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/dignity) +* [Letter from Utopia](https://nickbostrom.com/utopia) |