Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Solved World | Nick Bostrom

In Episode 366 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Nick Bostrom, the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute and Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative. Nick Bostrom is also the author of Superintelligence, which was the book that ignited a global conversation about what might happen if AI development goes wrong. In his latest book, Deep Utopia, Bostrom attempts to answer the opposite question - what happens if things go right?
At such a point of technological maturity driven by further and further advancements in artificial intelligence, humanity will confront challenges that are philosophical and spiritual in nature. In such a “solved world,” as Nick Bostrom describes it, what will be the point of human existence? What will give life meaning? How should we spend our days if we no longer need to work, exercise, or make political choices? And is such a world consistent with human agency and freedom? These are all questions that Kofinas explores in this expansive and thought-provoking conversation.
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Episode Recorded on 05/27/2024

[@nickm1727]

Fantasy land, but i did like his book Superintelligence.
We are heading for Mad Max but there will be islands of the super-rich who have managed to accumulate wealth by destroying value from every other useful endeavor of human existence that is not "AI buzzword".

[@hexwrench4433]

I always wondered how Shodan would come into existence.

[@NickolayKhazanov]

Individual realities sound like a nightmare. I strongly suspect that despite generational differences there will continue to be extroverts and introverts.
Most AI-related thinkers like Nick come across as the type of people who don't like dealing with other people, so the meme of the individual reality is appealing to them. The mistake they make is thinking that if you make a virtual reality that "satisfied" all of a person's optimal expectations they will by definition like it no matter whether they are an introvert or extrovert.
As an extrovert I talk to other people at a bar or a party because sometimes it's weird and uncomfortable, because other people ask me questions I don't expect, and because I don't know what my optimal expectations are - a customized virtual reality is by definition something I would loathe.

[@Chiyochanazu]

Elon Musk was forced to admit it was a lie we have Narrative AI not true AI

[@togoni]

Yap, AI will be used for only good 🤣🤣🤪🤡

[@Kenny-tl7ir]

Define good.

[@BatmanBoss]

It’s coming at us fast. Excellent interview thanks.

[@Kenny-tl7ir]

It’s about overcoming our own Ego.

[@jamesderoc6717]

"Solved World" nonsense