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Did Bostrom describe himself as the greatest analytic philosopher or did I make this up (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/13b3lc4/did_bostrom_describe_himself_as_the_greatest/)
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I had a very distinct memory of Nick Bostrom describing himself as “the greatest analytic philosopher of all time” on his website but while working on a paper I have been unable to find any evidence that this ever happened and going through his website on the way back machine I can’t find a point where he described himself as such. Did I invent this and if not does anyone know what I’m thinking of

Edit: also in reading his various bio’s with the way back machine I came across the sentence “As a graduate student he dabbled in standup comedy on the London circuit” and if anyone has a video of that I’m also interested

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His [current CV](http://www.nickbostrom.com/cv.pdf) still has the same claim, but now qualified with an *(AFAIK)*.
Tragically this is an external organization and therefor difficult to mock :(

Pfft, Boström would never call himself something as plebeian as an analytic philosopher. (he called himself a “rational idealist” though)