The Future of Human Evolution
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Unconstrained evolution could optimize away consciousness and meaning. Humanity must coordinate to choose its evolutionary trajectory.
Nick Bostrom Future of Humanity Institute Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School University of Oxford www.nickbostrom.com [First version: 2004. Published in Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing, ed. Charles Tandy (Ria University Press: Palo Alto, California, 2004): pp. 339-371. Republished in Bedeutung (2009): forthcoming] [pdf] Abstract Evolutionary development is sometimes thought of as exhibiting an inexorable trend towards higher, more complex, and normatively worthwhile forms of life. This paper explores some dystopian scenarios…
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