Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.


Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (ed. OUP Oxford, 2014) - ISBN: 9780191666827

Nick Bostrom Quotes

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of...