My apologies if I’ve missed this posted anywhere else (google and my scanning the sidebar didn’t turn it up). I’m not sure that there’s much that will be new to those who have been following existential risk elsewhere, but it’s nice to see an article like this in a relatively mainstream publication. Bostrom discusses issues such as the concept of existential risk and certain specific types of existential risk, why we as humans underestimate that risk, possible strategies to address existential risk, the simulation argument, how Hollywood and literature don’t generally portray existential risk helpfully, and other issues.
[Link] Atlantic Interview with Nick Bostrom—“We’re Understimating the Risk of Human Extinction”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/
My apologies if I’ve missed this posted anywhere else (google and my scanning the sidebar didn’t turn it up). I’m not sure that there’s much that will be new to those who have been following existential risk elsewhere, but it’s nice to see an article like this in a relatively mainstream publication. Bostrom discusses issues such as the concept of existential risk and certain specific types of existential risk, why we as humans underestimate that risk, possible strategies to address existential risk, the simulation argument, how Hollywood and literature don’t generally portray existential risk helpfully, and other issues.