“under the influence of the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostonramm whose book super intelligence had come out the year before.”
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom · 2014
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“You know, they said that the Wright brothers, if Warren Buffett could go back in time, he'd go back and shoot the Wright brothers and stop the aviation industry from ruining capitalism. I think that Nick Bostrom wrote this book, Super Intelligence, that scared the hell out of Elon.”
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“It's funny. In Superintelligence, like, Bostrom proposes, like, the only way, like, maybe this could be safe…”
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