BooksABC Series: DEEP UTOPIA – LIFE AND MEANING IN A SOLVED WORLD – Author: Nick Bostrom

BooksABC Series: DEEP UTOPIA – LIFE AND MEANING IN A SOLVED WORLD – Author: Nick Bostrom

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hello and welcome to denish Gua books
ABC again we continue profiling the
books that changed my life and change my
way of thinking and inspire me and
everything that comes into us and of
course when it comes to books everyone
knows that it’s one of my passions and I
have hundreds of books and thousands of
books and I keep buying more books all
kind of books I would say that
definitely book is a great friend but is
as well a great self-analysis when I
read the book when I get excited about
the book I can actually change my life
and change the way I think and at the
moment in a time of AI this is probably
the most important thing that can
actually come out of everything is the
way we can push our minds and the way we
think so today I want to highlight a
special books ABC to an author that I am
a huge fan for over 10 years or 15 I
would say Nick bolon and Nick Bol I
interview previously on my YouTube
podcast Series so you can actually find
everything about him but he probably the
most quoted philosopher researcher in
the areas of philosophy and artificial
intelligence and the future of humanity
and I will start being in mind that Nick
bolon is effectively a philosopher so I
start with a quote from one of the
biggest philosophers Of All Times
educating the mind without educating the
heart is no education at all another one
as well that is important is is the
market of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it
so these are two quotes by
Aristotle okay so Nick bolom so Nick
bostron has a new book and is definitely
one of the biggest Minds in the world
and when you look at him definitely you
can find an entire research about all
the books and the impact he’s been
having in the thinking about Humanity
Future Past and as well in the way we
look at technology artificial
intelligence a lot of different things
so when it comes to the books of Nick
Bolen I will start by lighting new book
deep Utopia and the Deep Utopia that is
launched in 2024 in May the title of the
book is De deep Utopia life and meaning
in a Sol world and the it’s a book that
touches the narrative around how to
create Utopia how can actually you can
actually look at finding balance in a
world of transformational technology
that actually can actually bring a lot
of different things so this is
definitely one of the different things
and of course when you talk about
someone like n Nick bolom we’re talking
about someone that is a highly regarded
philosopher Professor Oxford and leading
one of the biggest institutes in the
world in terms of research the future of
humanity Institute but one of the things
he’s been doing in all his books is
looking at what I would say that part of
the Common Ground is what constitutes to
be a human it’s a big question but it’s
probably I think the the common do
denominated in all his work and of
course his work touches amazing things
like I was looking and the if I look at
some of these different things from the
research between language and reality
from the different parts of humanity
bias and some of these books I’ll just
highlighted some of them and you’ll see
it in the background you have anthropic
bias from 2002 Global catastrophic risks
from 2008 human enhancement 2009 Super
intelligence paths danger strategies
2014 and de Utopia life and meaning in a
Sol World idea press
2024 so super intelligent particular
it’s a book that I think just
highlighting it’s one of the most
critical books I would say that was
released ever about artificial
intelligence and it’s a book that in a
in a simple way looks at how artificial
augment intelligence AGI can actually
change the path of humanity and
therefore the the subtitled paths
dangerous strategies it was done in 2014
10 years ago as we speak now in 2024 and
in 2014 talking about this was still a
bit of Science Fiction domain and uh
when you look at this of course this is
a book recommended by Bill Gates and a
lot of global
personalities is it was talking about we
need to be careful about AI but this was
10 years ago now of course A lot of the
things that the book was highlighting
are happening on a day today so we are
in a breakthrough in terms of humanity
and of course A lot of these topics are
more relevant than ever relevant in
terms of anthropic bias we can actually
look at anthropic is about humanity and
as well how we can actually look at the
challenge of conventional formulations
of the anthropic principle advocates for
a more Nuance approach to indexical
information across various disciplines
including cosmology philosophy and
quantum physics then of course I
mentioned about super intelligence and I
think especially in super intelligence
Nick boltron explores the various
Pathways to achieving super intelligence
including WB brain emulation and AGI
highlighting the transformative power
such entities could wield and of course
Nick balron distinguished between final
goals and instrumental goals argued in
that while certain objectives May
converge across intelligence agents the
combination of any level of intelligence
with diverse final goals could lead to
unforeseen consequences Boston warns of
the risks associated with creating a
super intelligence AI emphasizing the
global potential for an intelligence
explosion and the establishing of a
single t a global decision-making entity
that could optimize the world according
to its goals and this of course comes
with one of the areas that is quite well
known that is the simulation argument
that is a position that looks that the
fraction of human level civilizations
that reach a postum stage is very close
to zero and the fraction of posthuman
civilization that are interested in
running ancestor simulation is very
close to zero and the fraction of all
people with our kind of experience that
are living in their simulation is very
close to one so that means we can build
eventually some kind of simulation
machine that can actually put us a bit
like imagine we are managing a colony EV
ANS that you can take out of their their
part and put it in another environment
humans can do that super intelligence
can do that so there’s a lot of Ethics
around this is work a lot of philosophy
a lot of Dimensions but what I think
it’s very special is the way he looks at
Humanity technology Evolution and
present future and he looks at
mathematics and a lot of different
things for if I look at the book like
the global cat copes that is a book that
was created by Him and edit as well with
milanovic it’s a massive amount of work
we’re talking about 500 pages but I will
just look at some of the quotes that I
think are important especially to look
at this when you look at humanity and
the different parts that we can actually
highlight because effectively everything
we’re trying to do right now it’s partly
described and he been kind of looking at
all the possibilities of taking Humanity
a new level but as well to to find some
kind of ways of protecting Humanity at
the same time so when you look
especially at V parallel I’ll just read
a bit of discussion and conclusion by in
accessing the global risks measure
variable is how long it will take to
develop nanotechnology to the point of
exponential molecular manufacturing
nanofactory is building nanofactories
opinions May widely vary but
nanotechnologies who have studied
molecular manufacturing most closely
tend to have the shortest estimates it
appears technically plausible to us that
molecular manufacturing might be
developed prior to
2020 so that means a lot of things that
had happening in humanity has been
actually looking at this from a
scientific and perspective okay so to
look at this I just want to highlight
especially his new book which I think
it’s very important because it’s it’s
lunched as we speak so I want to start
with actually a beautiful quote that is
on on the introduction of the book that
is so the new book like I mention deep
Utopia life and meaning in a solved
world and the book is as well here on my
right you can actually look at it as a
book that looks at Utopia in the sense
of not looking at dystopia and how we
can actually create a transition to the
machine intelligence era without making
humans absolete so I know that this is
very philosophical philosophical but if
you are in looking at some of my
interviews I’ve been discussing this
I’ve been interviewing Global
personalities and this is really more
relevant than ever and I will just look
and read this perace to the book that I
think it’s really impassive like
children opening their eyes to a new day
having gone to the previous nights a
stuff of Snows began falling we dashed
to the window and lift ourselves to the
tips of our to
to behold the landscape transformed a
winter wonderland glittering the
possibilities for Discovery and play
even the tree branches before sub
boringly bear have been changed into
something beautiful and magical we feel
we are inhabiting a story book or a game
world and we want very much to put on
our boots and mittens immediately and
run outside to see it touch it
experience it and to play play play play
so this is very poetic face for the new
book deep Utopia but as well is what is
happening we have a new world that is
all the technology developments and all
the playgrounds of artificial
intelligence but of course we have in
the other hand of course the global
catastrophic human brain that has the
capacity to create Utopia capacity to
create dystopia and looking at his work
I think what I love about Nick bolon is
that is actually looking at we are in a
s world where human labor became become
absolute due to the advanced AI systems
but at the same time we have 10 billion
people by
2,100 and we have a lot of challenges
facing Humanity like always in history
The Challenge right now is that we have
more humans than ever in history and at
the same time we still have all the
beautiful principles of your our old
operating systems without new operating
systems of what is to be human so I want
just for you listening to this books ABC
of course I will iight all these books
please look at the interview I did with
Nick Bolston look at these books read as
much as you can if you don’t cannot read
500 pages look at summaries look at
interviews he has like thousands of
interviews available in YouTube my own
interview and so forth but learn keep
updating yourself keep a narrative that
is positive and the narrative that is
positive is narrative that manages the
pro the pros and cons of what is Being
Human all our feelings all our emotions
all our emotional intelligence and all
our poetry of loving some things versus
others but please don’t be aot try to
create this world with positive but as
well with sense of belonging and sense
of pushing yourself to be a better
person of course this is very humanistic
and positive his work is much more
pragmatic but I think it makes really
sense are looking the complexities of
navigating a world where the fundamental
changes facing Humanity are still there
but they are longer less and less
material and more philosoph
philosophical and spiritual and I think
especially in this new book there’s an
exploration of how individuals and
societies might grapple with it use of
purpose identity and fulfillment in a
world where traditional Notions of work
struggle and mortality are fun
fundamentally changed so so I’ll finish
here for everyone listening please books
are a great way to keep your mind active
to find new ways to take you out of
depression or to find new ways to solve
the problems you’re facing challenge
yourself with a good book they are
available Al over they are in the
internet they are in paper digital any
format audibles I love audiobooks
whatever works better for you but keep
reading keep learning and I’ll finish
with a quote by Nick B
because I think it’s very important that
I want for us to think how we can
actually look at this so let’s look at
this quote that I think it’s important
for all of us and I would like you to
think about this before the prospec of
an intelligence explosion we humans are
like small children’s playing with a
bomb such is the mismatch between the
power of our playing play thing and the
immaturity of our conduct super
intelligence is the challenge for which
we are not ready now and will not be
ready for a long time so this is one of
these quotes now let’s look at a bit
more poetical and that we can actually
look from this many of the points made
in this book are probably wrong it is
also likely that there are
considerations of critical importance
that I fail to take into account thereby
invalidating some of all or all of my
conclusions this is another quote from
Super intelligence and I think it’s very
interesting for us and as well sense of
humility that are important for us thank
you so much for being here for listening
and supporting me and please use this
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your thoughts with the books you love
and the def you have thank you so much
for being here
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In this episode of Booksabc, author and entrepreneur Dinis Guarda reviews books by Nick Bolstrom, a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. Booksabc is a series powered by openbusinesscouncil.org and citiesabc.com.

‘Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World’ is the first book Dinis highlights. In this latest book, Nick Bostrom envisions a future where AI development unfolds positively. As the conversation around AI continues to evolve, Bostrom probes the profound philosophical and spiritual implications of a world where superintelligence is safely developed, effectively governed, and utilised for the benefit of humanity.

To find more about ‘Deep Utopia’, visit https://nickbostrom.com/deep-utopia/

The second book by Nick Bolstrom that Dinis reviews is ‘Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’. In this book, Nick explores various pathways to achieving superintelligence, including whole brain emulation and AGI, highlighting the transformative power such entities could wield. He also warns of the risks associated with creating a superintelligent AI, emphasising the potential for an intelligence explosion and the establishment of a singleton, a global decision-making entity that could optimise the world according to its goals.

To know more about ‘Superintelligence’, visit

‘Global Catastrophic Risks’ is the book by Nick Bostrom and Milan M Cirkovic. In this book, 25 leading experts look at the risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts, Earth-based natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse. The book also addresses over-arching issues – policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes.

To know more about ‘Global Catastrophic Risks’, visit https://academic.oup.com/book/40615

About Nick Bolstrom

Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. He is known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.

Nick is the author of more than 200 publications. His academic work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he is the world’s most-cited philosopher aged 50 or under. He is a repeat main-stage TED speaker and he has been interviewed more than 1,000 times by various media. He has been on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and was included in Prospect’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15.
Nick’s work has pioneered some of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future: the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, etc.).

To know more about Nick Bolstrom, visit https://nickbostrom.com/

About BooksABC

After the success of his youtube podcast series, with more than 12M views, Dinis Guarda presents BooksABC, a new series where he reviews meaningful books that are changing the way we understand technology and society as a whole. More importantly, these are books that he loves. Dinis Guarda is an avid reader and writer and believes books are there to inspire and teach us. The first episode is available now on YouTube.

About Dinis Guarda

Throughout his career, Dinis Guarda has published numerous books and articles, and has been interviewed for media outlets such as IrishTechNews, O’Reilly, and Forbes. He is the founder of digital news sites intelligenthq.com, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, openbusinesscouncil.com, and more.

As an author, Dinis is well known for his book with Rais Hussin, “4IR AI Blockchain, FinTech, IOT – Reinventing a Nation” and “Blockchain, AI + Crypto Economics – The Next Tsunami.” Additionally, he is about to publish a new book, “NFTs Uprising – The citiesabc Ultimate Guide To Non-Fungible Tokens”. With this new series, Dinis tries to give voice to outstanding books, ideas and authors.

To know more about Dinis Guarda, visit https://businessabc.net/wiki/dinis-guarda and https://www.dinisguarda.com/

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