impersonal-perspective
A normative stance that values all individuals equally regardless of their temporal location, emphasizing the creation of many happy lives.
1 chapter across 1 book
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)Nick Bostrom
Chapter 14 of Bostrom's Superintelligence explores the strategic landscape surrounding the development of machine superintelligence, introducing key normative perspectives and strategic concepts such as differential technological development and the preferred order of arrival of technologies. It emphasizes the importance of steering technological progress by accelerating beneficial technologies and retarding harmful ones, particularly those that pose existential risks. The chapter also discusses the trade-offs involved in the timing of superintelligence's arrival, weighing the benefits of early arrival against the advantages of delaying to reduce risks and improve control solutions.