I've never been very interested in the Bostrom view of AI, as the viewpoint there seems to come from someone fairly removed from how computer programming works.

I've never been very interested in the Bostrom view of AI, as the viewpoint there seems to come from someone fairly removed from how computer programming works. It's always felt more like an intellectual exercise rather than very grounded in practicality (but that's just my two cents). Where I got more interested in Bostrom was some notions I heard from him (I think) on the general nature of science. I'd always assumed that learning more about how nature actually works was a strict positive, but now am convinced (more than ever) that we are just in a race to discover a technology that will harm us all (we've found some already, but who knows what worse discoveries are out there?)