{"id":214165,"date":"2025-05-17T05:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nick-bostrom-from-superintelligence-to-deep-utopia-can-we-create-a-perfect-society"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:04:24","slug":"nick-bostrom-from-superintelligence-to-deep-utopia-can-we-create-a-perfect-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nick-bostrom-from-superintelligence-to-deep-utopia-can-we-create-a-perfect-society","title":{"rendered":"Nick Bostrom \u2014 From Superintelligence to Deep Utopia \u2014 Can We Create a Perfect Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EQbjSHKB9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since Nick Bostrom wrote Superintelligence, AI has surged from theoretical speculation to powerful, world-shaping reality. Progress is undeniable, yet there is an ongoing debate in the AI safety community \u2013 caught between mathematical rigor and swiss-cheese security. P(doom) debates rage on, but equally concerning is the risk of locking in negative-value futures for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming in: motivation selection-especially indirect normativity-raises the question: is there a structured landscape of possible value configurations, or just a chaotic search for alignment?<\/p>\n<p>From Superintelligence to Deep Utopia: not just avoiding catastrophe but ensuring resilience, meaning, and flourishing in a\u2019solved\u2019 world; a post instrumental, plastic utopia \u2013 where humans are \u2018deeply redundant\u2019, can we find enduring meaning and purpose?<\/p>\n<p>This is our moment to shape the future. What values will we encode? What futures will we entrench?<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Highlights.<br \/> 3:07 Intro.<br \/> 4:15 Interview.<\/p>\n<p>P.s. the background music at the start of the video is \u2019 Eta Carinae \u2019 which I created on a Korg Minilogue XD: <a href=\"https:\/\/scifuture.bandcamp.com\/track\/.\">https:\/\/scifuture.bandcamp.com\/track\/.<\/a>\u2026 music at the end is \u2018Hedonium 1\u2032 which is guitar saturated with Strymon reverbs, delays and modulation: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ hedonium-1 Many thanks for tuning in! Please support SciFuture by subscribing and sharing! Buy me a coffee? <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/tech101z\">https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/tech101z<\/a> Have any ideas about people to interview? Want to be notified about future events? Any comments about the STF series? 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