Quotes by : Nick Bostrom

Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board....

Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to....

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn....

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on....

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth....

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest....

[D]umb evolutionary processes have dramatically amplified the intelligence in the human lineage even....