>Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously. Agreed, and as I've pointed out elsewhere[0] (see also the paren

>Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously. Agreed, and as I've pointed out elsewhere[0] (see also the parent comment[1]), his ideas are also not that new. I think it's quite sad that people somehow think that, because it shows how history -- even the development of ideas in the 20th century -- can be so easily forgotten. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319970 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319584