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8 quotes by Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom Bostrom in 2006 Born Niklas Boström (1973-03-10) 10 March 1973 (age 41) Helsingborg, Sweden Alma mater University of Gothenburg London School of Economics Occupation Philosopher Employer University of Oxford Known for Existential risk Movement Transhumanism Nick Bostrom (born Niklas Boström, 10 March 1973) is a Swedish philosopher at St. Cross College, University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the...
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In the nearer term, I think various developments in biotechnology and synthetic biology are quite disconcerting. We are gaining the ability to create... →

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Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with... →

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Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

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Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever... →

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Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

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For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

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I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

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There are some problems that technology can't solve.

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