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Nick Bostrom is an Oxford philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the simulation argument, and transhumanism. He founded the Future of Humanity Institute (2005-2024) and the Macrostrategy Research Initiative (2024-present), and co-founded the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) with David Pearce in 1998. Bostrom's work, including his book *Superintelligence*, has sparked significant discussion on the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact.
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Bostrom's Simulation Argument is not a direct claim that we live in a simulation but a trilemma in which he assigns no probability to which horn is true
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Bostrom founded and directed the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center at Oxford.
Founding Director
Bostrom was the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute.