Intro

This is an interview with Nick Bostrom, the Founding Director of Future of Humanity Institute Oxford.

This is the first installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.

This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:

-- The Intelligence Trajectory Political Matrix: danfaggella.com/itpm 

-- Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200

-- The SDGs of Strong AGI: https://emerj.com/ai-power/sdgs-of-ai/

Watch this episode on The Trajectory YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/_ZCE4XZ9doc?si=RXptg0y6JcxelXkF

Read the Nick Bostrom's episode highlight: danfaggella.com/bostrom1/

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There are three main questions we cover here on the Trajectory:

1. Who are the power players in AGI and what are their incentives?

2. What kind of posthuman future are we moving towards, or should we be moving towards?

3. What should we do about it?

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