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“Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.”
Nick Bostrom
“A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.”
Nick Bostrom“Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.”
Nick Bostrom“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies“Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board – contravening the Helsinki Declaration and every norm of moral decency, left, right, and center.”
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies“[D]umb evolutionary processes have dramatically amplified the intelligence in the human lineage even compared with our close relatives the great apes and our own humanoid ancestors”
and there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system.All in One Creative & Marketing Platform to tell stories at scale
