Nick Bostrom

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Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1973-03-10

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Listeners

449

Total plays

968

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes

   · 2003 · cited 9,153x

2. Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies

   · 2006 · cited 9,084x

3. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 8,992x

4. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

   · 2020 · cited 8,874x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,906x

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Quotes

• “[If] our actions have even the slightest effect on the probability of eventual colonization, this will outweigh their effect on when colonization takes place. For standard utilitarians, priority number one, two, three and four should consequently be to reduce existential risk. The utilitarian imperative “Maximize expected aggregate utility!” can be simplified to the maxim “Minimize existential risk!””
• “Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”
• “By anybody’s standards, there is a huge amount of unnecessary and undeserved suffering that is just bad and that we should get rid of.”
• “The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors’ website.”
• “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.”
• “What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.”

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Key facts

Born

Niklas Boström , ( 1973-03-10 ) 10 March 1973 (age 53) , Helsingborg , Sweden

Spouse

Susan

Education

University of Gothenburg ( BA ) Stockholm University ( MA ) King's College London ( MSc ) London School of Economics ( PhD )

Thesis

Observational Selection Effects and Probability (2000)

Doctoral advisor

Colin Howson , Craig Callender

Era

Contemporary philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Analytic philosophy

Institutions

Yale University , University of Oxford , Future of Humanity Institute

Main interests

Philosophy of artificial intelligence , Bioethics

Notable ideas

Anthropic bias , Reversal test , Simulation hypothesis , Vulnerable world hypothesis , Existential risk studies , Singleton , Ancestor simulation , Information hazard , Infinitarian paralysis , Self-indication assumption , Self-sampling assumption