I sent Part One to Professor Bostrom at his personal email address. No surprise: I haven’t heard from him and don’t expect to. If you’re wondering why Professor Bostrom and his theories deserve attention, here’s a bit from a very long and detailed essay on him from The New Yorker Magazine: ‘Within the high caste of Silicon Valley, Bostrom…
Month: October 2017
An Open Letter to Professor Nick Bostrom
My post was inspired by Oxford Professor Nick Bostrom’s paper on the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation (which has got much public acclaim). You can go here for the complete paper, but the Abstract is brief enough to reproduce here: ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human…