Nick Bostrom

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Nick Bostrom (born 1973) is a philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on the anthropic principle. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (2000).

Sourced

• Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
  • (2005) In Defence of Posthuman Dignity, Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 202-214.

• Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
  • Bostrum's Anthropic Principle Primer

• The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors’ website.
  • "Nick Bostrom on the future, transhumanism and the end of the world" at Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (22 January 2007) (ieet.org)

External links

• Nick Bostrom's homepage.
• Bostrom's Anthropic Principle Primer containing information about the anthropic principle and the Doomsday argument.
• Bostrom's Simulation Argument
• Oxford Future of Humanity Institute
• The Guardian interviews Bostrom about the World Transhumanist Association
• Interview on transhumanism