Our Biggest Problems Aren’t What You Think They Are

Here is a neat 20 minute that challenges our thinking and as Charlie Munger would say “inverts” our existing paradigms.

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Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.

Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom began thinking of a future full of human enhancement, nanotechnology and cloning long before they became mainstream concerns. From his famous simulation argument — which presents evidence for the Matrix-like idea that humans are living in a computer simulation — to the impact of uploading our brains on human consciousness, Bostrom approaches both the inevitable and the speculative using the tools of philosophy, bioethics and probability.

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