Philosophy

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2020 0:48 UTC by Matt Reyes

(From Wikipedia,) Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

This tag probably implies non-Less Wrong philosophy in particular. This could be mainstream or academic philosophy, Eastern philosophy, or something else

Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprog28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC

142 points

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What I’d change about different philosophy fields

Rob Bensinger8 Mar 2021 18:25 UTC

56 points

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Eliezer’s Sequences and Mainstream Academia

lukeprog15 Sep 2012 0:32 UTC

218 points

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Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy

lukeprog20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC

158 points

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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant

lukeprog6 Dec 2012 0:42 UTC

107 points

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[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

70 points

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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC

117 points

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Dissolving the Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2008 3:17 UTC

121 points

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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jul 2008 10:16 UTC

108 points

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Concepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 2:01 UTC

84 points

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A Priori

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2007 21:02 UTC

75 points

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Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei_Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC

62 points

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“The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

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On the nature of purpose

Nora_Ammann22 Jan 2021 8:30 UTC

28 points

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The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism”

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jan 2008 16:29 UTC

77 points

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On the ontological development of consciousness

jessicata25 Jan 2020 5:56 UTC

45 points

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(unstableontology.com)

Puzzles for Physicalists

jessicata12 Mar 2020 1:37 UTC

45 points

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(unstableontology.com)

Necessity and Warrant

namespace1 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC

27 points

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(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Metaphilosophical Mysteries

Wei_Dai27 Jul 2010 0:55 UTC

48 points

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Upcoming stability of values

Stuart_Armstrong15 Mar 2018 11:36 UTC

15 points

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Philosophy of Numbers (part 2)

Charlie Steiner19 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC

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Empirical philosophy and inversions

Charlie Steiner29 Dec 2017 12:12 UTC

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Impossible moral problems and moral authority

Charlie Steiner18 Nov 2019 9:28 UTC

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Life as metaphor for everything else.

Charlie Steiner5 Apr 2020 7:21 UTC

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Gricean communication and meta-preferences

Charlie Steiner10 Feb 2020 5:05 UTC

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Meta-preferences two ways: generator vs. patch

Charlie Steiner1 Apr 2020 0:51 UTC

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Review of Lakoff & Johnson, ‘Philosophy in the Flesh’

lukeprog26 Oct 2011 11:57 UTC

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Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_Leong1 Nov 2020 23:39 UTC

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Deflationism isn’t the solution to philosophy’s woes

Rob Bensinger10 Mar 2021 0:20 UTC

62 points

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Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

111 points

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[Question] How can one train philosophical skill?

abramdemski30 Sep 2021 14:56 UTC

30 points

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Book Review: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein

Chris_Leong12 Oct 2021 20:14 UTC

30 points

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We need a theory of anthropic measure binding

mako yass30 Dec 2021 7:22 UTC

26 points

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[Question] What is a probabilistic physical theory?

Ege Erdil25 Dec 2021 16:30 UTC

15 points

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Paradigm-building from first principles: Effective altruism, AGI, and alignment

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 16:12 UTC

24 points

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Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC

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(rootsofprogress.org)

A paradox of existence

Chris van Merwijk5 Apr 2022 9:45 UTC

27 points

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[Link] New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, “Normative Theories of Rational Choice: Rivals to Expected Utility”

Aryeh Englander16 May 2022 19:33 UTC

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Wormy the Worm

River Lewis21 May 2022 15:34 UTC

3 points

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(heytraveler.substack.com)

A short conceptual explainer of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

jessicata3 Jun 2022 1:06 UTC

56 points

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(unstableontology.com)

The Burden of Worldbuilding

lsusr4 Jun 2022 1:15 UTC

27 points

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Cracks in the Wall, Part I: The Conscious

silo24 Jun 2022 18:29 UTC

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(stephenfoster.substack.com)

Find out how utilitarian you are—a mega thread of philosophy polls

spencerg10 Sep 2022 14:05 UTC

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(twitter.com)

[Question] How does anthropic reasoning and illusionism/eliminitivism interact?

Shiroe5 Oct 2022 22:31 UTC

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Poster Session on AI Safety

Neil Crawford12 Nov 2022 3:50 UTC

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Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?

Joe Carlsmith16 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC

37 points

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Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Dec 2022 1:28 UTC

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Wittgenstein’s Language Games and the Critique of the Natural Abstraction Hypothesis

Chris_Leong16 Mar 2023 7:56 UTC

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[Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We?

Jayson_Virissimo26 Sep 2012 12:25 UTC

55 points

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The Ultimate Source

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jun 2008 9:01 UTC

72 points

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A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular

Rob Bensinger11 Oct 2019 22:25 UTC

60 points

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Against Modal Logics

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Aug 2008 22:13 UTC

59 points

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Philosophy as low-energy approximation

Charlie Steiner5 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC

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Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2008 7:06 UTC

55 points

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On first looking into Russell’s History

Richard_Ngo8 Nov 2018 11:20 UTC

23 points

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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

“One Man’s Modus Ponens Is Another Man’s Modus Tollens”

gwern17 May 2019 22:03 UTC

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(www.gwern.net)

misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC

21 points

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“Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)

Callmesalticidae20 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC

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“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC

20 points

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Settled questions in philosophy

lukeprog16 Feb 2011 6:53 UTC

53 points

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What do professional philosophers believe, and why?

Rob Bensinger1 May 2013 14:40 UTC

49 points

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LW Philosophers versus Analytics

Ronny Fernandez28 Nov 2011 15:40 UTC

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Leaving LessWrong for a more rational life

Mark_Friedenbach21 May 2015 19:24 UTC

47 points

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Philosophy that can be “taken seriously by computer scientists”

lukeprog27 Dec 2011 2:39 UTC

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Clarifying the Postmodernism Debate With Skeptical Modernism

Chris_Leong16 Feb 2018 9:40 UTC

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Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules

pragmatist8 Aug 2012 4:27 UTC

39 points

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Living Metaphorically

lukeprog28 Nov 2011 15:01 UTC

33 points

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Shell, Shield, Staff

SquirrelInHell25 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC

11 points

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Philosophy of Numbers (part 1)

Charlie Steiner2 Dec 2017 18:20 UTC

11 points

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Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn’t

lukeprog29 Nov 2012 21:00 UTC

39 points

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Philosophers and seeking answers

Scott Alexander4 Feb 2011 22:51 UTC

38 points

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To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC

40 points

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Philosophical self-ratification

jessicata3 Feb 2020 22:48 UTC

23 points

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(unstableontology.com)

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

diegocaleiro13 Apr 2011 19:45 UTC

38 points

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A Policy for Biting Bullets

eapache31 Aug 2020 21:00 UTC

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“In the Dust of This Planet,” by Eugene Thacker

Callmesalticidae10 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC

4 points

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Accelerate without humanity: Summary of Nick Land’s philosophy

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC

28 points

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A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

Scott Alexander25 Jan 2015 20:42 UTC

51 points

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A Broken Koan

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 May 2008 19:04 UTC

8 points

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Postmodernism for rationalists

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2017 12:20 UTC

3 points

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(palegreendot.net)

You don’t need Kant

1 Apr 2009 18:09 UTC

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[Link] Scott Aaronson on Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity

DanielVarga15 Aug 2011 22:51 UTC

31 points

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Notes on Wisdom

David Gross14 Nov 2020 2:37 UTC

6 points

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Help Reform A Philosophy Curriculum

JonathanLivengood8 Dec 2012 22:45 UTC

38 points

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Music: The 21st Century Monads

XiXiDu25 Jun 2011 10:38 UTC

19 points

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

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

30 points

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Fittingness: Rational success in concept formation

Polytopos10 Jan 2021 15:58 UTC

6 points

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Some things I’ve learned in college

Aaron Bergman25 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC

22 points

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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

The importance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC

35 points

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25 Min Talk on MetaEthical.AI with Questions from Stuart Armstrong

June Ku29 Apr 2021 15:38 UTC

21 points

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Christenson’s “Epistemology of Disagreement: The Good News”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 3:58 UTC

1 point

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Paper Review: Mathematical Truth

Alex Hollow30 May 2021 20:25 UTC

5 points

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(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Mainstream Epistemology for LessWrong, Part 1: Feldman on Evidentialism

ChrisHallquist16 Nov 2013 16:16 UTC

30 points

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Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC

5 points

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In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

−8 points

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(olitness.wordpress.com)

More Useful Way of Answering “Mind vs. Body” Problem

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

9 points

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(olitness.wordpress.com)

Philosophy Web—Project Proposal

SocratesDissatisfied24 Aug 2021 15:36 UTC

6 points

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Truth + Reason = The True Religion?

David Gross17 Sep 2021 22:14 UTC

34 points

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Book Review: Feeling Great by David Burns

Fei12 Oct 2021 16:32 UTC

11 points

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Book Review: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There

Anmoljain13 Oct 2021 3:46 UTC

2 points

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Book Review: Denial of Death

PatrickDFarley14 Oct 2021 4:28 UTC

14 points

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A reply to Mark Linsenmayer about philosophy

lukeprog5 Jan 2013 11:25 UTC

30 points

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Hegel vs. GPT-3

Bezzi27 Oct 2021 5:55 UTC

9 points

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2020 PhilPapers Survey Results

Rob Bensinger2 Nov 2021 5:00 UTC

58 points

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Can solipsism be disproven?

nx20594 Dec 2021 8:24 UTC

−2 points

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Can the laws of physics/nature prevent hell?

superads916 Feb 2022 20:39 UTC

−7 points

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The Fetishization of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC

−8 points

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Unity of Doctrine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC

6 points

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Consciousness: A Compression-Based Approach

interstice16 Apr 2022 16:40 UTC

12 points

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Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

15 points

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(universalprior.substack.com)

Demonstrating MWI by interfering human simulations

Yair Halberstadt8 May 2022 17:28 UTC

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My Take On Philosophy

Matt Goldwater22 May 2022 16:43 UTC

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Just Say No to Utilitarianism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 22:59 UTC

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the world these days? We’re moving to a new, a new what?

Bill Benzon4 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC

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Bridging Expected Utility Maximization and Optimization

Whispermute5 Aug 2022 8:18 UTC

24 points

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What is Consciousness?

belkarx19 Oct 2022 21:14 UTC

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Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC

19 points

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New free Substack blog on the psychology of belief

Derrick Farnell14 Nov 2022 8:48 UTC

−3 points

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Questions about AI that bother me

Eleni Angelou5 Feb 2023 5:04 UTC

13 points

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Why I think that teaching philosophy is high impact

Eleni Angelou19 Dec 2022 3:11 UTC

5 points

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Against Diversification

Jack Malde22 Dec 2022 13:29 UTC

2 points

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(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

Theodicy and the simulation hypothesis, or: The problem of simulator evil

philosophybear26 Dec 2022 18:55 UTC

6 points

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(philosophybear.substack.com)

Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world

philosophybear29 Dec 2022 3:26 UTC

21 points

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Pierre Menard, pixel art, and entropy

Joey Marcellino9 Jan 2023 16:34 UTC

1 point

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The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

philosophybear13 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC

11 points

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Thatcher’s Axiom

Edward P. Könings24 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC

10 points

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The Knockdown Argument Paradox

Bryan Frances28 Jan 2023 19:23 UTC

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Nozick’s Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory

Edward P. Könings17 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

10 points

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No Room for Political Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

2 points

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A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy

Richard Henage27 Feb 2023 0:25 UTC

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The idea of an “aligned superintelligence” seems misguided

ssadler27 Feb 2023 11:19 UTC

6 points

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(ssadler.substack.com)

Some Variants of Sleeping Beauty

Sylvester Kollin and Eric Chen

1 Mar 2023 16:51 UTC

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On Universe-Centrism & the Risk of Theocratic Science: Why Not Consider a Deeper Reality?

amelia2 Mar 2023 20:12 UTC

8 points

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Philosophical Physics Discussion Follow-up

amelia6 Mar 2023 7:55 UTC

9 points

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(www.lesswrong.com)

The Type II Inner-Compass Theorem

Tristan Miano6 Mar 2023 2:35 UTC

−16 points

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The Inner-Compass Theorem

Tristan Miano5 Mar 2023 15:21 UTC

−22 points

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The Ogdoad

Tristan Miano5 Mar 2023 20:01 UTC

−15 points

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The Pinnacle

nem7 Mar 2023 17:07 UTC

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Three levels of exploration and intelligence

Q Home16 Mar 2023 10:55 UTC

6 points

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Morality Doesn’t Determine Reality

Alex Beyman17 Mar 2023 7:11 UTC

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Key Questions for Digital Minds

Jacy Reese Anthis22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC

21 points

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(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

So, just why do GPTs have to operate by continuing an existing string?

Bill Benzon24 Mar 2023 12:08 UTC

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Why There Is No Answer to Your Philosophical Question

Bryan Frances24 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC

−12 points

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[Question] Best resources to learn philosophy of mind and AI?

Sky Moo27 Mar 2023 18:22 UTC

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[Question] Bermudez Interface Problem

Motor Vehicle27 Mar 2023 18:11 UTC

1 point

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The Rationalist Guide to Hinduism

Harsha G.29 Mar 2023 17:03 UTC

21 points

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(somestrangeloops.substack.com)

~100 Interesting Questions

RohanS30 Mar 2023 13:57 UTC

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[Question] Why don’t people talk about the Doomsday Argument more often?

sam31 Mar 2023 17:52 UTC

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