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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    Bostrom’s last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), sparked a global conversation on AI that continues and widens to this day. That book, which despite its academic style became a New York Times bestseller, focused on what would happen if AI goes wrong.But what if AI goes right? Suppose we succeed in developing superintelligence safely and that we make good use of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Anthropic Bias

    Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information"--turns out to be a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Making Sense

    Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

    by Sam Harris ...
    Narrated by Sam Harris, David Chalmers, Anil Seth, Thomas Metzinger, Timothy Snyder, Glenn C. Loury, Robert Sapolsky, Daniel Kahneman, Nick Bostrom, David Krakauer0, Max Tegmark1, David Deutsch2 ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 26 min

    Fromthe bestselling author of Waking Up and TheEnd of Faith**, a collection of the best conversationsfrom his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.**“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —SamHarrisSamHarris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring... ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... Read more

    $22.79 USD