Okay (if possible), I want you to imagine I’m an AI system or similar and that you can give me resources in the context window that increase the probability of me making progress on problems you care about in the next 5 years. Do you have a reading list or similar for this sort of thing? (It seems hard to specify and so it might be easier to mention what resources can bring the ideas forth. I also recognize that this might be one of those applied knowledge things rather than a set of knowledge things.)
Also, if we take the cryptography lens seriously here, an implication might be that I should learn the existing off the shelf solutions in order to “not invent my own”. I do believe that there is no such thing as being truly agnostic to a meta-philosophy since you’re somehow implicitly projecting your own biases on to the world.
I’m gonna make this personally applicable to myself as that feels more skin in the game and less like a general exercise.
There are a couple of contexts to draw from here:
Traditional philosophy. (I’ve read the following):
A history of western philosophy
(Plato, Aristotles, Hume, Foucault, Spinoza, Russell, John Rawls, Dennett, Chalmers and a bunch of other non continental philosophers)
Modern more AI related philosophy (I’ve read the following):
Yudkowsky, Bostrom
(Not at first glance philosophy but): Michael Levin (Diverse Intelligence), Some Category Theory (Composition),
Which one is the one to double down on? How do they relate to learning more about meta ethics? Where am I missing things within my philosophy education?
(I’m not sure this is a productive road to go down but I would love to learn more about how to learn more about this.)
Okay (if possible), I want you to imagine I’m an AI system or similar and that you can give me resources in the context window that increase the probability of me making progress on problems you care about in the next 5 years. Do you have a reading list or similar for this sort of thing? (It seems hard to specify and so it might be easier to mention what resources can bring the ideas forth. I also recognize that this might be one of those applied knowledge things rather than a set of knowledge things.)
Also, if we take the cryptography lens seriously here, an implication might be that I should learn the existing off the shelf solutions in order to “not invent my own”. I do believe that there is no such thing as being truly agnostic to a meta-philosophy since you’re somehow implicitly projecting your own biases on to the world.
I’m gonna make this personally applicable to myself as that feels more skin in the game and less like a general exercise.
There are a couple of contexts to draw from here:
Traditional philosophy. (I’ve read the following):
A history of western philosophy
(Plato, Aristotles, Hume, Foucault, Spinoza, Russell, John Rawls, Dennett, Chalmers and a bunch of other non continental philosophers)
Eastern philosophy (I’ve read the following):
Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism (Mainly tibetan buddhism here)
Modern more AI related philosophy (I’ve read the following):
Yudkowsky, Bostrom
(Not at first glance philosophy but): Michael Levin (Diverse Intelligence), Some Category Theory (Composition),
Which one is the one to double down on? How do they relate to learning more about meta ethics? Where am I missing things within my philosophy education?
(I’m not sure this is a productive road to go down but I would love to learn more about how to learn more about this.)