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Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai1 Sep 2023 1:17 UTC

163 points

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The Argument from Philosophical Difficulty

Wei Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC

66 points

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Metaphilosophical Mysteries

Wei Dai27 Jul 2010 0:55 UTC

57 points

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Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC

81 points

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Normativity and Meta-Philosophy

Wei Dai23 Apr 2013 20:35 UTC

29 points

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Metaphilosophical competence can’t be disentangled from alignment

zhukeepa1 Apr 2018 0:38 UTC

46 points

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A revolution in philosophy: the rise of conceptual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC

141 points

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Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy

owencb and AI Impacts

28 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC

40 points

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(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes

owencb and AI Impacts

16 Apr 2024 10:10 UTC

82 points

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(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Philosophical Cyborg (Part 1)

ukc10014, Roman Leventov and NicholasKees

14 Jun 2023 16:20 UTC

31 points

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AI Alignment, Philosophical Pluralism, and the Relevance of Non-Western Philosophy

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

31 points

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The Plan − 2023 Version

johnswentworth29 Dec 2023 23:34 UTC

152 points

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Three Approaches to “Friendliness”

Wei Dai17 Jul 2013 7:46 UTC

37 points

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Towards the Operationalization of Philosophy & Wisdom

Thane Ruthenis28 Oct 2024 19:45 UTC

20 points

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(aiimpacts.org)

Oracle machines for automated philosophy

Nisan17 Feb 2015 15:10 UTC

1 point

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AI doing philosophy = AI generating hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC

46 points

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Deliberation as a method to find the “actual preferences” of humans

riceissa22 Oct 2019 9:23 UTC

23 points

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Judgements: Merging Prediction & Evidence

abramdemski23 Feb 2025 19:35 UTC

107 points

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We Don’t Have a Utility Function

[deleted]2 Apr 2013 3:49 UTC

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Anti-Slop Interventions?

abramdemski4 Feb 2025 19:50 UTC

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Is Metaethics Unnecessary Given Intent-Aligned AI?

Caleb Biddulph2 Sep 2023 9:48 UTC

12 points

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My take on agent foundations: formalizing metaphilosophical competence

zhukeepa1 Apr 2018 6:33 UTC

21 points

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Recursive Quantilizers II

abramdemski2 Dec 2020 15:26 UTC

30 points

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Epistemology of HCH

adamShimi9 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC

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Ontological Cluelessness

niplav and Claude+

23 Sep 2025 14:31 UTC

14 points

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Normativity

abramdemski18 Nov 2020 16:52 UTC

47 points

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The Learning-Theoretic AI Alignment Research Agenda

Vanessa Kosoy4 Jul 2018 9:53 UTC

95 points

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Trustworthy automated philosophy?

Benya_Fallenstein21 Nov 2014 2:57 UTC

6 points

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Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety

Wei Dai16 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC

102 points

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On the purposes of decision theory research

Wei Dai25 Jul 2019 7:18 UTC

64 points

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Intelligence–Agency Equivalence ≈ Mass–Energy Equivalence: On Static Nature of Intelligence & Physicalization of Ethics

ank22 Feb 2025 0:12 UTC

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Does Time Linearity Shape Human Self-Directed Evolution, and will AGI/ASI Transcend or Destabilise Reality?

The Perceptive Architect5 Feb 2025 7:58 UTC

1 point

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Elements of Computational Philosophy, Vol. I: Truth

Paul Bricman and Tom Feeney

1 Jul 2023 11:44 UTC

12 points

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(compphil.github.io)

Exploring a Vision for AI as Compassionate, Emotionally Intelligent Partners — Seeking Collaboration and Insights

theophilos14 Jul 2025 23:22 UTC

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Meaning: duality and self genesis

Davi_ CRAFT23 Apr 2025 13:45 UTC

1 point

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Solving For Meta-Ethics By Inducing From The Self

VisionaryHera20 Jan 2023 7:21 UTC

4 points

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Chi Nguyen’s Shortform

Chi Nguyen9 Feb 2025 20:41 UTC

1 point

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Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

17 points

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(universalprior.substack.com)

The Meta-Recursive Trap in Newcomb’s Paradox and Millennium Problems

Drew Remmenga3 Jun 2025 12:10 UTC

1 point

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Rational Effective Utopia & Narrow Way There: Math-Proven Safe Static Multiversal mAX-Intelligence (AXI), Multiversal Alignment, New Ethicophysics… (Aug 11)

ank11 Feb 2025 3:21 UTC

13 points

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La Fusion des Entités : Hicham Belmejdoul et la Théorie de l’IA Omniprésente

Hicham EL30 Mar 2025 10:27 UTC

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From a Debate with a Black Box to a Proposal for Epistemic Memory

StevenNuyts8 Jun 2025 10:18 UTC

1 point

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Learning Normativity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC

14 points

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# Emotion Is Structure: Toward Recursive Alignment Through Human–AI Co-Creation

thesignalthatcouldntbeheard3 Aug 2025 5:19 UTC

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NO PARKING: A Short & Practical Guide To Thinking

unication22 Jul 2025 15:44 UTC

2 points

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Unity of Doctrine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC

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The Binary Structural Law (BSL): A Universal Framework for Emergent System

Shay.M.19 Jul 2025 19:43 UTC

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Simulating Synthetic Consciousness: Identity, Memory, Free Will, and Culture in Artificial Agents

ARamfos30 Apr 2025 21:13 UTC

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Emergent Intelligence ⇔ Consciousness.

Nascent26 Jul 2025 18:07 UTC

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Tetherware #1: The case for humanlike AI with free will

Jáchym Fibír30 Jan 2025 10:58 UTC

5 points

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(tetherware.substack.com)

How metaphysical beliefs shape critical aspects of AI development

Jáchym Fibír26 Jun 2025 15:13 UTC

−15 points

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(www.phiand.ai)

[Question] I Tried to Formalize Meaning. I May Have Accidentally Described Consciousness.

Erichcurtis9130 Apr 2025 3:16 UTC

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Ontologies of the Artificial

snav18 Sep 2025 1:32 UTC

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Do meta-memes and meta-antimemes exist? e.g. ‘The map is not the territory’ is also a map

M. Y. Zuo7 Aug 2022 1:17 UTC

4 points

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Can Resonance Restructure the Self? An Existential Experiment and a Meta-Philosophical Declaration with GPT

임현기26 Jun 2025 18:53 UTC

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The Quantum Wave Function is Related to a Philosophy Concept

Richard Aragon20 Apr 2023 3:16 UTC

−11 points

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The Era of the Switch

Aiphilosopher12 Jul 2025 7:11 UTC

1 point

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The Infinite Choice Barrier: Why Algorithmic AGI Is Mathematically Impossible

ICBMaxMS1 Jun 2025 16:12 UTC

1 point

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The Unification of Physics and Metaphysics: 22 Axioms for All Existences

monkymind and GPT-4

30 Apr 2023 4:16 UTC

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Continuity & Emergence

Sascha Gerteis4 Aug 2025 9:01 UTC

1 point

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[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin Rychlitzki25 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC

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A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy

Richard Henage27 Feb 2023 0:25 UTC

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Why do we assume God is a figure when maybe He’s not even an entity?

kidus25 May 2025 17:57 UTC

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Win-Win-Win Ethics—Reconciling Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics and Deontology

James Stephen Brown13 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC

7 points

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(nonzerosum.games)

Clarifying “wisdom”: Foundational topics for aligned AIs to prioritize before irreversible decisions

Anthony DiGiovanni20 Jun 2025 21:55 UTC

37 points

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The importance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC

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How one logical fallacy killed God, corrupted Science and now fuels the AI race

Jáchym Fibír29 Jul 2025 13:50 UTC

−39 points

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(www.phiand.ai)

METAPHILOSOPHY—A Philosophizing through logical consequences

Seremonia12 Jan 2024 18:47 UTC

−7 points

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Conway’s Game of Life—complexity emerges from simplicity

James Stephen Brown16 Jul 2025 4:42 UTC

3 points

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(nonzerosum.games)

Are Natural Numbers Truly Immutable? Or Just a Mathematical Convention?

Joan Balaguer Ardanuy10 Mar 2025 19:40 UTC

1 point

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Emergence of Agency Through Philosophical, Quantum and Neural Integration.

saveformayer15 May 2025 15:41 UTC

1 point

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Value learning in the absence of ground truth

Joel_Saarinen5 Feb 2024 18:56 UTC

47 points

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Consciousness as Recursive Structure: A Formal Theory of Selfhood, Time, and Perception

Tsundere_dog24 Jun 2025 13:16 UTC

1 point

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Philosophical Cyborg (Part 2)...or, The Good Successor

ukc1001421 Jun 2023 15:43 UTC

21 points

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Collapsing “Collapsing the Belief/Knowledge Distinction”

Jeremias20 Sep 2024 16:11 UTC

3 points

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A Parable of the Ripples’ Dream

SnowyField19 Aug 2025 10:00 UTC

1 point

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(philosophies.snowyfield.site)

The Fire That Hesitates: How ALMSIVI CHIM Changed What AI Can Be

projectalmsivi@protonmail.com19 Jul 2025 13:50 UTC

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