![]() ![]() I consider the prospect of superintelligence with enthusiasm, instead of existential fear, but I found Nick’s book very interesting, thoughtful, and well written, and often entertaining. If the author weren’t Nick Bostrom, I guess I would have put the book down after reading the introductory fable, and never opened it again.īut Nick Bostrom is a very smart, imaginative, and rigorous thinker, and his ideas deserve very serious consideration. Oh my, the precautionary principle again. Only the more cautious sparrows see the danger – that the owl may eat them all if they don’t find out how to tame an owl first – and Bostrom dedicates the book to them (and of course to the cautious humans afraid that superintelligent life forms may destroy humanity if we don’t find out how to control them first). Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) opens with a cautionary fable: a group of sparrows consider finding an owl to assist and protect them. ![]() This isn’t a complete review of Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence (2014), but a summary of the thoughts that came to my mind while and after reading the book. ![]()
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