Book review: “Superintelligence” by Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is one of the cleverest people in the world. He is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, and was recently voted 15th most influential thinker in the world by the readers of Prospect magazine. He has laboured mightily and brought forth a very important book, Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies. I hesitate to tangle with this leviathan, but its publication is a landmark event in the debate which this blog is all about, so I must. I hope this book finds a huge audience. It deserves to. The subject is vitally important for our species, and no-one has...