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Ep 16: Ch 9, Part 1: "Optimism"

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Bostrum's Paper of the Vulnerable World Hypothesis

Bostrom is concerned that in the future, any one of us will have too much power to do harm. He's really worried about too much power. And so with whatever amount of power you have, the power could be used to do good or to not do good, to create or to destroy. This has always been the case. Every person that has ever been born has the capacity tocreate or to destroy, to do goodor to do evil. Bostrum thinks we need a strong man at the top who can tell the rest of us what to dos. It's an appeal to this philosopher king idea. The only people that can be trusted are the great philosophers,. and

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