He plausibly should be, he definitely gets a lot of the picture very well, but I get some impression from more recent work that he might be missing some of the convergent consequentialism stuff which seems pretty core to what I see as the core threat model. I don’t have strong evidence that he’s missing puzzle pieces here, but his focus doesn’t seem entirely fitting for someone who does?
Nick Bostrom thinks about things for non-obvious reasons, e.g. Deep Utopia partially aims to understand human values by considering their behavior at the extremes.
He plausibly should be, he definitely gets a lot of the picture very well, but I get some impression from more recent work that he might be missing some of the convergent consequentialism stuff which seems pretty core to what I see as the core threat model. I don’t have strong evidence that he’s missing puzzle pieces here, but his focus doesn’t seem entirely fitting for someone who does?
Still, on reflection I moved him up a bunch.
Nick Bostrom thinks about things for non-obvious reasons, e.g. Deep Utopia partially aims to understand human values by considering their behavior at the extremes.