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While it would be incorrect to say that I originally came to these issues only via Bostrom's papers, they certainly made me a lot more interested in the field. Partly because of the prestige of being actually peer-reviewed, but mostly (I think - it was a long time ago) because they were clear, rigorous and self-contained to an extent that few other materials were.