History & Philosophy of Science

TagLast edit: 3 Jan 2023 19:22 UTC by Eleni Angelou

History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) encompasses the integrated study of the history and philosophy of science. It breaks down into general HPS which is concerned with questions about the nature of science and scientific development, e.g., what is a scientific law?, and HPS of individual sciences which focuses on the specific agenda of a science e.g., history and philosophy of biology.

The special nature of special relativity

adamShimi9 Jan 2023 17:30 UTC

37 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics

Elizabeth5 Oct 2022 22:40 UTC

38 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Lost in Innovation: The Case of Phlogiston

adamShimi20 Jan 2023 12:19 UTC

15 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Who ordered alignment’s apple?

Eleni Angelou28 Aug 2022 4:05 UTC

6 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni Angelou7 Sep 2022 17:15 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Alignment’s phlogiston

Eleni Angelou18 Aug 2022 22:27 UTC

10 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

There is no royal road to alignment

Eleni Angelou18 Sep 2022 3:33 UTC

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Against the weirdness heuristic

Eleni Angelou2 Oct 2022 19:41 UTC

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

The Matrix of Untruth

whitehatStoic10 Nov 2022 18:42 UTC

−3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.whitehatstoic.com)

Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research

Nora_Ammann and particlemania

19 Aug 2022 17:18 UTC

30 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Book recommendations for the history of ML?

Eleni Angelou28 Dec 2022 23:50 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Worlds of Flow

remember16 Jan 2023 20:17 UTC

82 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

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