Nick Bostrom | Life and Meaning in an AI Utopia

What would life look like in a fully automated world? How would we derive meaning in a world of superintelligence? Today’s Win-Win episode is all about utopias, dystopias and thought experiments, because I’m talking to Professor Nick Bostrom. Nick is one of the world’s leading philosophers - he’s a leading thinker on the nature of consciousness, AI, catastrophic risks, cosmology… he’s also the guy behind the Simulation Hypothesis, the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, the seminal AI book Superintelligence, …he even inspired this video of mine! Thanks to Igor for joining me in this one, give him a follow at: Off into the hypotheti-sphere we go… Chapters 0:00 - Intro 01:42 - Why shift focus to Utopia? 03:31 - Different types of Utopias 11:40 - How to find purpose in a solved world? 18:31 - Potential Limits to Technology 22:34 - How would Utopians approach C
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