Book · 2024 · Philosophy
Deep Utopia
Life and Meaning in a Solved World
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Great book. Definitely recommend you pick it up.
What they say about it
- Explores the upside of technology“what happens if we get it right”2
- Focuses on optimal future scenarios“scenarios we can hope for”2
The best things said about it
The more recent book tries to actually analyze what that would look like if things, as it were, go maximally well.
Nick Bostrom Big Technology Podcast · Aug 2024 This book, Deep Utopia, it's not really an attempt to sort of, well, before we looked at the downside, now let's make the case of how wonderful the upside could be.
Nick Bostrom Big Technology Podcast · Aug 2024 Superintelligence was basically what happens if we get it wrong. And Deep Utopia is what happens if we get it right.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Jun 2024 Your book, Deep Utopia, is about the scenarios we can hope for the optimal setup.
There's this kind of, in fact, like, a table in the book that outlines some of the affordances you would have at technological maturity.
Nick Bostrom Big Technology Podcast · Aug 2024 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom is a philosophical examination of the optimal scenarios and best-case futures for humanity following the advent of advanced artificial intelligence. On the Big Technology Podcast, Alex Kantrowitz recommended the book to his audience, encouraging them to pick it up alongside Bostrom's earlier work, Superintelligence. Kantrowitz noted that Bostrom's writings were widely available at bookstores and explored how humanity might become fit to inhabit a perfect world. Bostrom explained that the book was not simply a case for how wonderful AI's upside could be, but rather an analytical look at what a technologically mature civilization would look like if things went maximally well, complete with a table outlining various brain manipulations and virtual realities. Spencer Klavan also brought up Deep Utopia on Interesting Times, using it to transition the conversation toward positive artificial intelligence scenarios and philosophical questions of value. Additionally, Chris Williamson mentioned the book on Modern Wisdom while speaking with Mike Solana, contrasting it with Superintelligence by explaining that while the older book focused on what happens if humanity gets artificial intelligence wrong, Deep Utopia explores what happens if humanity gets it right.
Every mention
Alex Kantrowitz Great book. Definitely recommend you pick it up. So, you basically said if we get to this perfect world, yo… 2
“Uh folks, the book definitely check out the both books, but Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence are available um basically at all places that sell books.”
“Great book. Definitely recommend you pick it up. So, you basically said if we get to this perfect world, you think right now we're effectively unfit to inhabit it. And in your book, we sort of look at, or in the early chapters,”
Nick Bostrom And that’s then, is the question that utopia the book is wrestling with and I think. 4
“And that’s then, is the question that utopia the book is wrestling with and I think.”
“And the more recent book tries to actually analyze what that would look like if things, as it were, go maximally well. And we're going to get back to some parts of the interview that we did back in the day as we talk through what this utopia can look like.”
“And so this book, Deep Utopia, it's not really an attempt to sort of, well, before we looked at the downside, now let's make the case of how wonderful the upside could be. I think the upside could be extremely wonderful”
“Perfect virtual realities, perfect, like, ways to manipulate the brain, like, that they're better than drugs. Like, there's, like, a whole, you could, there's this kind of, in fact, like, a table in the book that outlines some of the affordances you would have at technological maturity.”
Chris Williamson Do you see Nick Bostrom's new book Deep Utopia? Have not seen the new book, but I have read Superintelligen… 1
“Do you see Nick Bostrom's new book Deep Utopia? Have not seen the new book, but I have read Superintelligence. Yeah, I read Superintelligence way back. Yeah, so Superintelligence was basically what happens if we get it wrong. And Deep Utopia is what happens if we get it right.”
Spencer Klavan A cheerier subject may be you’ve been writing since at least 2024. Your book, deep utopia, is about the sce… 1
“A cheerier subject may be you’ve been writing since at least 2024. Your book, deep utopia, is about the scenarios we can hope for the optimal setup.”
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“You may know him as the author of Superintelligence, of Deep Utopia, of a lot of work that coined or framed the ideas that we take for granted today in the discourse.”
“He is the uh famed AI philosopher and author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies.”
“He is a philosopher, the author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence. Um Nick, question for you.”
“Nick Bostrom is a philosopher whose work focuses on artificial intelligence, existential risk, and the future of humanity. He is Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative and the author of several books, the most recent of which is “Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World.””
“He's a philosopher and the best-selling author of superintelligence and also the author of a new book, Deep Utopia, Life and Meaning in a Solved World.”
“We spoke in 2019 and now you have this book coming out a little bit about how we might end up in utopia with AI. And of course, there are some concerns there.”
“The book is Deep Utopia, Life and Meaning in a Solved World. It's by Nick Bostrom, our guest today, also the author of Superintelligence, best-selling author, Nick Bostrom.”
“and maybe we can avoid going down the path of you know Brave New World or something um um but um this book deep Utopia let me promote it”