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Comment by Nick Bostrom

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Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder
[...] which, with the right economic policies, would inaugurate an age of abundance.
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AGI will create abundance
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AI Unverifiable The quote is too fragmentary to verify the full claim: it only says something unnamed, 'with the right economic policies,' would create 'an age of abundance.' It does not clearly identify AGI as the subject, and it makes abundance conditional rather than directly asserting the complete statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The provided PDF contains the exact quoted wording on p.1, lines 66–69; the leading [...] is a faithful omission of earlier words in the same sentence. In that PDF, footnote 8 attributes the passage to Nick Bostrom’s Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Ideapress Publishing, 2024), pp. 147–49, and Bostrom’s official site also lists Deep Utopia as a 2024 book by Nick Bostrom. The URL is a secondary review posted 2024-09-07 by Jacob Williams, but the stored excerpt, author, year 2024, and source URL are consistent with the evidence. ([brokensandals.net](https://brokensandals.net/reviews/2024/deep-utopia/review-of-deep-utopia.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Big Think’s April 26, 2024 article does contain the exact submitted wording and attributes it to Nick Bostrom’s book. However, a reliable review quoting Deep Utopia with page citations gives Bostrom’s fuller original sentence as ending "which, with the right economic policies, would inaugurate an age of abundance." Because the submitted version drops "which, with" without using an ellipsis, I cannot confirm it as verbatim Bostrom wording; it appears to be a shortened secondary-source rendering. ([bigthink.com](https://bigthink.com/the-future/nick-bostrom-deep-utopia/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote verified via web search. The phrase "the right economic policies would inaugurate an age of abundance" appears in Bostrom's 2024 book Deep Utopia, in the context of human occupational labor becoming obsolete through automation. The Big Think article (source_url) was 403-blocked from direct WebFetch but is confirmed as containing this content from search results. Nick Bostrom is the philosopher and Superintelligence author. Vote alignment "for" matches the statement "AGI will create abundance". · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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