Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Solved World | Nick Bostrom

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 366 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Nick Bostrom, the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute and Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative. Nick Bostrom is also the author of Superintelligence, which was the book that ignited a global conversation about what might happen if AI development goes wrong. In his latest book, Deep Utopia, Bostrom attempts to answer the opposite question – what happens if things go right?

At such a point of technological maturity driven by further and further advancements in artificial intelligence, humanity will confront challenges that are philosophical and spiritual in nature. In such a “solved world,” as Nick Bostrom describes it, what will be the point of human existence? What will give life meaning? How should we spend our days if we no longer need to work, exercise, or make political choices? And is such a world consistent with human agency and freedom? These are all questions that Kofinas explores in this expansive and thought-provoking conversation.

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Episode Recorded on 05/27/2024

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Demetra Kaffinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a
0:06.4	podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives and learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:18.0	My guest in this episode of Hidden Forces is Nick Bostram, the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute
0:25.8	and principal researcher at the Macro Strategy Research Initiative.
0:30.0	He's also the author of Super Intelligence, which was the book that ignited a global conversation
0:35.7	about what might happen if AI development goes wrong.
0:39.4	In his latest book, Deep Utopia, Bostrom attempts to answer the opposite question.
0:45.0	What happens if everything goes right?
0:48.8	At such a point of technological maturity, driven by further and further advancements in artificial intelligence,
0:55.3	we will confront a challenge that is primarily no longer technological, but philosophical and
1:00.8	spiritual in nature. In such a solved world, as Bozstrom described, philosophical and
1:05.0	how we spend our spiritual in nature. What is the point of human existence?
1:08.0	What gives life meaning?
1:10.0	And how should we spend our days if we no longer need to work, exercise, or make political choices,
1:16.6	and is such a world consistent with human agency and freedom?
1:21.2	Before we begin to answer these questions,
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