Superintelligence charts the submerged rocks of the future with unprecedented detail.

Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. every paragraph has like six ideas embedded within it.' - Nate Silver 'Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. 'Worth reading.' - Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla 'I highly recommend this book' - Bill Gates 'very deep. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than areconceptualization of the essential task of our time. Yet the writing is so lucid that it somehow makes it all seem easy. Read the book and learn about oracles, genies, singletons about boxing methods, tripwires, and mind crime about humanity's cosmic endowment and differentialtechnological development indirect normativity, instrumental convergence, whole brain emulation and technology couplings Malthusian economics and dystopian evolution artificial intelligence, andbiological cognitive enhancement, and collective intelligence.This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans thanon the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.But we have one advantage: we get to make the firstmove.

Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains.If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack.

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