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  2. Anthropic Bias - Wikipedia

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    Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002) is a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom.Bostrom investigates how to reason when one suspects that evidence is biased by "observation selection effects", in other words, when the evidence presented has been pre-filtered by the condition that there was some appropriately positioned observer to "receive" the evidence.

  3. Nick Bostrom - Wikipedia

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    Nick Bostrom (/ ˈ b ɒ s t r əm / BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973) [4] is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.

  4. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    For Bostrom, Carter's anthropic principle just warns us to make allowance for anthropic bias—that is, the bias created by anthropic selection effects (which Bostrom calls "observation" selection effects)—the necessity for observers to exist in order to get a result. He writes:

  5. Reversal test - Wikipedia

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    The reversal test is a heuristic designed to spot and eliminate status quo bias, an emotional bias irrationally favouring the current state of affairs.The test is applicable to the evaluation of any decision involving a potential deviation from the status quo along some continuous dimension.

  6. AI and the meaning of life: Philosopher Nick Bostrom says ...

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    What is needed, Bostrom claims, is a culture shift to one that “emphasises enjoyment and appreciation rather than usefulness and efficiency”, which would first involve uprooting the entire ...

  7. Human Enhancement - Wikipedia

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    Human Enhancement (2009) is a non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu. Savulescu and Bostrom write about the ethical implications of human enhancement and to what extent it is worth striving towards. [1] [2] [3]

  8. ChatGPT boss says he’s created human-level AI, then says he’s ...

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    Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom wrote about the hypothetical scenario in his seminal book Superintelligence, in which he outlined the existential risks posed by advanced artificial ...

  9. Five scientists on what it would mean for chatbots to be ...

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    Bostrom said that while it was difficult to speculate on something so theoretical, humans could start by simply asking an AI what it wanted and agreeing to help with the easiest requests: “low ...