nick bostrum. nick is a pioneer in trans humanism - what our species may become. existential risk, the threats to our survival, and the nature of the universe. why is he agnostic? nick, i would be really interested in how you reflect on the ultimate questions of reality - theistic, atheistic - what are your views? >>well i guess the first step would be to specify more precisely what you would mean by these possibilities so i will say the theistic possibility. what exactly would you include in that? >you would say that there is a - an ultimate creator god, who is infinite in all of his primary virtues in corporals of no body. and that is the terminus of explanation. so rather than an infinite regress of causation, that entity is determinous of explanation. that is the god hypothesis. >>so there are a lot of smart people who believe that. >yes and a lot of smart people who don't. >>exactly. so it's one of those situations where you could pick sides but how do you know that you don't pick the wrong side? like why would you be more likely to be right than all of these