PHILOSOPHER

Nick Bostrom

1973 - Today

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Nick Bostrom ( BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973 in Sweden) is a philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.Bostrom is the author of Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002), Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) and Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World. Bostrom believes that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to superintelligence, which he defines as "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nick Bostrom has received more than 1,437,576 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nick Bostrom is the 1,200th most popular philosopher (down from 1,118th in 2019), the 953rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 867th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Philosopher.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Nick Bostroms by language

Over the past year Nick Bostrom has had the most page views in the with 193,149 views, followed by Spanish (19,415), and German (19,183). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (280.90%), Russian (236.27%), and Simple English (88.51%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nick Bostrom ranks 1,200 out of 1,267. Before him are William Alston, Sara Danius, James Burnham, Ernest Belfort Bax, Alexander Berzin, and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. After him are Susan Haack, R. C. Sproul, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Alexander Tarasov, Patricia Hill Collins, and Dugald Stewart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Nick Bostrom ranks 225. Before him are Kouta Hirano, Vratislav Lokvenc, Adam Scott, Nanako Matsushima, Nikola Grbić, and Edurne Pasaban. After him are Inés Sastre, Matthew McGrory, Proof, Rian Johnson, Jared Borgetti, and Fabio Lione.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nick Bostrom ranks 953 out of 1,879. Before him are Wollmar Boström (1878), Hans Wetterström (1923), Bertil Roos (1943), Cecilia Malmström (1968), Erik Adlerz (1892), and Ruth Svedberg (1903). After him are Sven-Gunnar Larsson (1940), Malin Åkerman (1978), Staffan Tapper (1948), Kjell Grede (1936), Eric Carlberg (1880), and Erik Lindahl (1891).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Sweden

Among philosophers born in Sweden, Nick Bostrom ranks 6. Before him are Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806), Lars Gustafsson (1936), Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585), and Sara Danius (1962).

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