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Journal articles on the topic "Nick Bostrom"

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Rosengrün, Sebastian. "Nick Bostrom: Die Zukunft der Menschheit." Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur 8, no. 1 (2020): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/zfphl.8.1.35779.

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Bostrom, Nick. "The doomsday argument." Think 6, no. 17-18 (2008): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477175600002943.

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Erdeneev, E. T. "Concept of Transhumanity of Nick Bostrom." Humanitarian Vector 13, no. 3 (2018): 90–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2018-13-3-90-95.

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Thorn, Paul D. "Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies." Minds and Machines 25, no. 3 (2015): 285–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11023-015-9377-7.

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Bostrom, Nick. "Reasons for doubting design: Response to Swinburne." Think 2, no. 4 (2003): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477175600000610.

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Suppía, Alfredo. "O argumento da simulação e seu caldo de cultura." Remate de Males 41, no. 1 (2021): 152–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/remate.v41i1.8663774.

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Este trabalho propõe uma revisão do argumento da simulação de Nick Bostrom, sob uma perspectiva cultural e multimidiática, a fim de discutir eventuais influências culturais e ideológicas no desenvolvimento do argumento original. Também consideraremos críticas ou contra-argumentos propostos por outros autores que já discutiram esse assunto. Em suma, partimos da hipótese de que todo o argumento de Bostrom está tão contaminado por um “caldo de cultura” (midiático, metafísico, político e econômico), que é difícil confirmar o distanciamento que se espera de uma reflexão filosófica de tal monta. Em outras palavras, nos perguntamos se o argumento de Bostrom aparece como um subproduto de tal “caldo de cultura”, se surge como mais uma manifestação superestrutural na esteira do sistema de produção pós-industrial de extrema acumulação de capital financeiro.

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Szymański, Kamil. "Should We Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? Review: Nick Bostrom, Superinteligencja. Scenariusze, strategie, zagrożenia." Kultura i Wartości 20 (May 31, 2017): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2016.20.183.

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Bognar, G. "Human Enhancement, edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom." Mind 121, no. 481 (2012): 225–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzs034.

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Holland, S. "Human Enhancement * EDITED BY JULIAN SAVULESCU AND NICK BOSTROM." Analysis 70, no. 2 (2010): 398–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/anq011.

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Thomas, Joel. "In defense of philosophy: a review of Nick Bostrom,Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies." Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 28, no. 6 (2015): 1089–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0952813x.2015.1055829.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nick Bostrom"

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Ånséhn, Ludvig. "Preferensutilitaristisk AGI : En analys av Stuart Russells lösningsförslag på kontrollproblemet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433392.

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Books on the topic "Nick Bostrom"

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Corriveau, Art. How I, Nicky Flynn, finally get a life (and a dog): A novel. Amulet Books, 2010.

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Petersen, Steve. Superintelligence as Superethical. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0021.

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Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence outlines a frightening but realistic scenario for human extinction: true artificial intelligence is likely to bootstrap itself into superintelligence, and thereby become ideally effective at achieving its goals. Human-friendly goals seem too abstract to be preprogrammed with any confidence; and if those goals are not explicitly favorable to humans, the superintelligence will extinguish us—not through any malice, but simply because it will want our resources for its own purposes. In response, I argue that things might not be as bad as Bostrom suggests. If the superintelligence must learn complex final goals, then this means such a superintelligence must in effect reason about its own goals. And because it will be especially clear to a superintelligence that there are no sharp lines between one agent’s goals and another’s, that reasoning could therefore automatically be ethical in nature.

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Bomberger, E. Douglas. Preparation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872311.003.0010.

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The Fifteenth Regiment’s disciplined response to racial harassment during a two-week stay at Camp Wadsworth, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, earned it the right to be among the first units ordered to France. Nick LaRocca represented the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in a Chicago lawsuit to stop the unauthorized publication of the sheet music to “Livery Stable Blues” by former bandmate “Yellow” Nunez, but the judge ruled that all blues were the same and therefore not subject to copyright protection. The Victor Talking Machine Company, using the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, made the first recordings employing the full symphony orchestra. The concert seasons of orchestras across the country opened amid intense scrutiny of their repertoire choices and patriotism.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nick Bostrom"

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Rose, Jenny. "“A Nice Morality” (1771–1798)." In Between Boston and Bombay. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25205-2_2.

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Agar, Nicholas. "The Philosopher—Nick Bostrom on the Morality of Enhancement." In Humanity's End. The MIT Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262014625.003.0007.

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Osterlind, Steven J. "The Arts and the Age of the Chip." In The Error of Truth. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831600.003.0017.

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This chapter provides the capstone to this book’s argument that humankind has adopted quantification as a worldview. It describes how quantification has permeated our lives, far beyond just academic formulas to all domains, whether mathematical or otherwise. Examples are given first from the intersection of mathematics and art in da Vinci’s drawings. Next, the connection between mathematics and music is made, with a discussion of J. S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier and music theory’s circle of fifths. The chapter then provides an elementary explanation of artificial intelligence (or AI, as it is commonly known) with Bayesian logic, and a discussion of Nick Bostrom’s idea’s that the possibility of a computer having “superintelligence” poses a supreme danger to humanity. In addition, the chapter describes Max Tegmark’s innovative work in astrophysics and his belief in a wholly mathematical universe as part of a larger four-system multiverse.

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Briggs, Andrew, and Michael J. Reiss. "Truth." In Human Flourishing. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850267.003.0005.

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It is not easy to ascertain what is true, whether we are talking about science, religion or everyday life. Issues raised by such films as The Truman Show and The Matrix and Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument have similarities with one of the foundational arguments in Western philosophy: Plato’s Cave. There are a number of ways of interpreting Plato’s Cave but what any of us thinks is true may not turn out to be so. Every field of knowledge aspires to articulate the truth and how this is done depends on the field, so that there are different approaches to discerning the truth in mathematics, the natural sciences, the social sciences, moral philosophy, and religion. Postmodernism is widely held to be an attack on truth but can be seen more positively as a way of critiquing the ways in which those in power control what is generally accepted to be true.

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Carpenter, Barry K. "Models and Explanations: Understanding Chemical Reaction Mechanisms." In Of Minds and Molecules. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195128345.003.0022.

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In 1997, Ross Kelly and his coworkers at Boston College reported their results from an experiment with an intriguing premise (Kelly et al., 1997; see also Kelly et al., 1998). They had synthesized the molecule shown in figure 12.1. It was designed to be a “molecular ratchet,” so named because it appeared that it should undergo internal rotation about the A—B bond more readily in one direction than the other. The reason for thinking this might occur was that the benzophenanthrene moiety—the “pawl” of the ratchet—was anticipated to be helical. Thus, in some sense, this might be an inverse ratchet where the asymmetry dictating the sense of rotation would reside in the pawl rather than in the “teeth” on the “wheel” (the triptycene unit) as it does in a normal mechanical ratchet. Kelly and coworkers designed an elegant experiment to determine whether their molecular ratchet was functioning as anticipated, and they were (presumably) disappointed to find that it was not—internal rotation about the A—B bond occurred at equal rates in each direction. In 1998 Davis pointed out that occurrence of the desired behavior of the molecular ratchet would have constituted a violation of the second law of thermodynamics (Davis, 1998). With hindsight, I think most chemists would agree that Davis’s critique is unassailable, although the appeal of the mechanical analogy was so strong that I imagine those same chemists would also understand if Kelly et al. had overlooked the thermodynamic consequences of their proposal in the original design of the experiment. But now comes the interesting question: Suppose Kelly et al. had been fully aware that their experiment, if successful, would undermine the second law of thermodynamics, should they have conducted it anyway? Davis, in his critique writes: . . .Some would argue that this experiment was misconceived. To challenge the Second Law may be seen as scientific heresy (a nice irony, considering the Jesuit origins of Boston College), and the theoretical arguments against molecular ratchets and trapdoors are well developed. . . .

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Conference papers on the topic "Nick Bostrom"

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Wolf-Brenner, Christof. "Make Us Smile! AI and the Violation of Human Intentions." In Digital Support from Crisis to Progressive Change. University of Maribor Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-485-9.5.

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In his book Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom points to several ways the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) might fail, turn out to be malignant or even induce an existential catastrophe. He describes ‘Perverse Instantiations’ (PI) as cases, in which AI figures out how to satisfy some goal through unintended ways. For instance, AI could attempt to paralyze human facial muscles into constant smiles to achieve the goal of making humans smile. According to Bostrom, cases like this ought to be avoided since they include a violation of human designer’s intentions. However, AI finding solutions that its designers have not yet thought of and therefore could also not have intended is arguably one of the main reasons why we are so eager to use it on a variety of problems. In this paper, I aim to show that the concept of PI is quite vague, mostly due to ambiguities surrounding the term ‘intention’. Ultimately, this text aims to serve as a starting point for a further discussion of the research topic, the development of a research agenda and future improvement of the terminology.

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Sullivan, John F., Frank Stegmeier, Dale Porter та Leigh Zawel. "Abstract B29: SMAC‐mimetic induced apoptosis of SKOV3 cells requires NIK and activation of canonical NFκB signaling". У Abstracts: AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics--Nov 15-19, 2009; Boston, MA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.targ-09-b29.

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