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

The Social Impact of Trolley Problems

atomantic8 May 2024 3:09 UTC

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Designing for a single purpose

Itay Dreyfus7 May 2024 14:11 UTC

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(productidentity.co)

Reality comprehensibility: are there illogical things in reality?

DDthinker30 Apr 2024 21:30 UTC

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Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 8 - When does fundamental uncertainty matter?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC

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WISDOMISM A Moral Theory for the Age of Information

Peter lawless 19 Apr 2024 23:06 UTC

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Daniel Dennett has died (1942-2024)

kave19 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC

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(dailynous.com)

An ethical framework to supersede Utilitarianism

metalcrow17 Apr 2024 17:18 UTC

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A New Response To Newcomb’s Paradox

Daniel Birnbaum15 Apr 2024 20:38 UTC

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Investigating the role of agency in AI x-risk

Corin Katzke8 Apr 2024 15:12 UTC

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Conflict in Posthuman Literature

Martín Soto6 Apr 2024 22:26 UTC

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(twitter.com)

Principles of action: fundamentals of how action works

DDthinker31 Mar 2024 2:19 UTC

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Artificial Intelligence and Living Wisdom

TMFOW29 Mar 2024 7:41 UTC

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(tmfow.substack.com)

On attunement

Joe Carlsmith25 Mar 2024 12:47 UTC

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Wittgenstein and the Private Language Argument

TMFOW24 Mar 2024 20:06 UTC

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(tmfow.substack.com)

A Day into my thoughts!

PranayJairam17 Mar 2024 22:07 UTC

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The Astronomical Sacrifice Dilemma

Matthew McRedmond11 Mar 2024 19:58 UTC

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Epiphenomenalism leads to eliminativism about qualia

Clément L11 Mar 2024 19:53 UTC

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Common Philosophical Mistakes, according to Joe Schmid [videos]

DanielFilan3 Mar 2024 0:15 UTC

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(www.youtube.com)

Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Arjun Panickssery24 Feb 2024 13:18 UTC

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The role of philosophical thinking in understanding large language models: Calibrating and closing the gap between first-person experience and underlying mechanisms

Bill Benzon23 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC

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Selections From “The Trouble With Being Born”

Arjun Panickssery20 Feb 2024 10:07 UTC

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Scientific Method

Andrij “Androniq” Ghorbunov18 Feb 2024 21:06 UTC

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7. Evolution and Ethics

RogerDearnaley15 Feb 2024 23:38 UTC

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Do androids silence echoes of the past?

Michael Li11 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC

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AI doing philosophy = AI generating hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC

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Is the universe all there is? ‘Evidence’ for objects outside the universe...

JonathanHall14 Jan 2024 23:56 UTC

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A Chinese Room Containing a Stack of Stochastic Parrots

RogerDearnaley12 Jan 2024 6:29 UTC

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Apply to the PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship

Nora_Ammann, DusanDNesic and Lucas Teixeira

12 Jan 2024 4:06 UTC

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Free agents

Michele Campolo27 Dec 2023 20:20 UTC

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5. Moral Value for Sentient Animals? Alas, Not Yet

RogerDearnaley27 Dec 2023 6:42 UTC

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[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin Rychlitzki25 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC

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[Question] Why is there an alignment problem?

InfiniteLight22 Dec 2023 6:19 UTC

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The Limits of Artificial Consciousness: A Biology-Based Critique of Chalmers’ Fading Qualia Argument

Štěpán Los17 Dec 2023 19:11 UTC

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Agglomeration of ‘Ought’

DavidAndresBloom15 Dec 2023 19:07 UTC

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The Busy Bee Brain

Bill Benzon13 Dec 2023 13:10 UTC

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Nietzsche’s Morality in Plain English

Arjun Panickssery4 Dec 2023 0:57 UTC

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Sentience Institute 2023 End of Year Summary

michael_dello27 Nov 2023 12:11 UTC

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(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

On Ego and The Exploitation of Achievement

Ismail12 Nov 2023 18:23 UTC

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It’s OK to be biased towards humans

dr_s11 Nov 2023 11:59 UTC

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Book Review: Determined by Sapolsky

Kailuo Wang1 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC

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Epistemic Motif of Abstract-Concrete Cycles & Domain Expansion

Dalcy10 Oct 2023 3:28 UTC

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Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

B Jacobs and Jobst Heitzig

29 Sep 2023 11:23 UTC

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I designed an AI safety course (for a philosophy department)

Eleni Angelou23 Sep 2023 22:03 UTC

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Belief and the Truth

Sam I am20 Sep 2023 17:38 UTC

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(open.substack.com)

Book review: The Importance of What We Care About (Harry G. Frankfurt)

David Gross13 Sep 2023 4:17 UTC

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Playing the game vs. finding a cheat code

Metacelsus10 Sep 2023 18:11 UTC

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(open.substack.com)

Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai1 Sep 2023 1:17 UTC

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The mind as a polyviscous fluid

Bill Benzon28 Aug 2023 14:38 UTC

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An Introduction to Me

AlithyInfinity24 Aug 2023 16:45 UTC

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The Lopsided Lives Argument For Hedonism About Well-being

omnizoid22 Aug 2023 7:59 UTC

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SSA vs. SIA: how future population may provide evidence for or against the foundations of political liberalism

j30 Jul 2023 20:18 UTC

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A case for gamete personhood (reductio ad absurdum)

Ansyn131220 Jul 2023 8:25 UTC

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Valuism—an approach to life for you to consider

spencerg19 Jul 2023 15:23 UTC

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Still no Lie Detector for LLMs

Whispermute and ben_levinstein

18 Jul 2023 19:56 UTC

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AI, Consciousness, and the problem of Moral Considerability

stultus16 Jul 2023 19:56 UTC

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Two Hot Takes about Quine

Charlie Steiner11 Jul 2023 6:42 UTC

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Definitions are about efficiency and consistency with common language.

Nacruno9610 Jul 2023 23:46 UTC

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Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term for intrinsically valued internal experiences

Andrew_Critch10 Jul 2023 8:09 UTC

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Elements of Computational Philosophy, Vol. I: Truth

Paul Bricman and Tom Feeney

1 Jul 2023 11:44 UTC

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(compphil.github.io)

Freedom under Naturalistic Dualism

Arturo Macias27 Jun 2023 14:34 UTC

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The Subtle Art of still giving the F*ck (Part 1 — We just need a Happy Ending!!)

shashank200027 Jun 2023 11:01 UTC

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Avoiding metaphysics means giving bad philosophy a free pass

Aditya16 Jun 2023 20:54 UTC

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You Are a Computer, and No, That’s Not a Metaphor

jakej11 Jun 2023 5:38 UTC

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(sigil.substack.com)

Safe AI and moral AI

William D'Alessandro1 Jun 2023 21:36 UTC

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Evil Demon

sanroot24 May 2023 4:13 UTC

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The Goal Misgeneralization Problem

Myspy18 May 2023 23:40 UTC

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(drive.google.com)

Formulating the AI Doom Argument for Analytic Philosophers

JonathanErhardt12 May 2023 7:54 UTC

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In defence of epistemic modesty [distillation]

Luise10 May 2023 9:44 UTC

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Categories of Arguing Style : Why being good among rationalists isn’t enough to argue with everyone

Camille Berger 7 May 2023 17:45 UTC

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Philosophy by Paul Graham Link

EniScien26 Apr 2023 5:36 UTC

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The Quantum Wave Function is Related to a Philosophy Concept

Richard Aragon20 Apr 2023 3:16 UTC

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How Large Language Models Nuke our Naive Notions of Truth and Reality

Sean Lee17 Apr 2023 18:08 UTC

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AI as Contact with our Collective Unconscious

Scott Broock15 Apr 2023 2:11 UTC

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The Truth About False

Thoth Hermes15 Apr 2023 1:01 UTC

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(thothhermes.substack.com)

A Defense of Utilitarianism

Pareto Optimal6 Apr 2023 21:09 UTC

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(paretooptimal.substack.com)

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

sam31 Mar 2023 17:52 UTC

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~100 Interesting Questions

RohanS30 Mar 2023 13:57 UTC

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The Rationalist Guide to Hinduism

Harsha G.29 Mar 2023 17:03 UTC

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(somestrangeloops.substack.com)

[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

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Why There Is No Answer to Your Philosophical Question

Bryan Frances24 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC

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

Bill Benzon24 Mar 2023 12:08 UTC

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Key Questions for Digital Minds

Jacy Reese Anthis22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC

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(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Morality Doesn’t Determine Reality

Alex Beyman17 Mar 2023 7:11 UTC

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Three levels of exploration and intelligence

Q Home16 Mar 2023 10:55 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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The Pinnacle

nem7 Mar 2023 17:07 UTC

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The Type II Inner-Compass Theorem

Tristan Miano6 Mar 2023 2:35 UTC

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The Ogdoad

Tristan Miano5 Mar 2023 20:01 UTC

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The Inner-Compass Theorem

Tristan Miano5 Mar 2023 15:21 UTC

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Some Variants of Sleeping Beauty

Sylvester Kollin and Eric Chen

1 Mar 2023 16:51 UTC

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The idea of an “aligned superintelligence” seems misguided

ssadler27 Feb 2023 11:19 UTC

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(ssadler.substack.com)

A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy

Richard Henage27 Feb 2023 0:25 UTC

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No Room for Political Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

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Nozick’s Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory

Edward P. Könings17 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

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Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?

Joe Carlsmith16 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC

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Questions about AI that bother me

Eleni Angelou5 Feb 2023 5:04 UTC

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The Knockdown Argument Paradox

Bryan Frances28 Jan 2023 19:23 UTC

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Thatcher’s Axiom

Edward P. Könings24 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC

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The Human-AI Reflective Equilibrium

Allison Duettmann24 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC

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The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

philosophybear13 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC

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Pierre Menard, pixel art, and entropy

Joey Marcellino9 Jan 2023 16:34 UTC

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

philosophybear29 Dec 2022 3:26 UTC

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

philosophybear26 Dec 2022 18:55 UTC

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(philosophybear.substack.com)

Against Diversification

Jack Malde22 Dec 2022 13:29 UTC

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(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

Why I think that teaching philosophy is high impact

Eleni Angelou19 Dec 2022 3:11 UTC

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Poster Session on AI Safety

Neil Crawford12 Nov 2022 3:50 UTC

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Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC

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What is Consciousness?

belkarx19 Oct 2022 21:14 UTC

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

Shiroe5 Oct 2022 22:31 UTC

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

spencerg10 Sep 2022 14:05 UTC

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(twitter.com)

Bridging Expected Utility Maximization and Optimization

Whispermute5 Aug 2022 8:18 UTC

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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)

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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The Burden of Worldbuilding

lsusr4 Jun 2022 1:15 UTC

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Just Say No to Utilitarianism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 22:59 UTC

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

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

jessicata3 Jun 2022 1:06 UTC

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(unstableontology.com)

My Take On Philosophy

UtilityMonster22 May 2022 16:43 UTC

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Wormy the Worm

River Lewis21 May 2022 15:34 UTC

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(heytraveler.substack.com)

[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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Demonstrating MWI by interfering human simulations

Yair Halberstadt8 May 2022 17:28 UTC

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Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

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(universalprior.substack.com)

The Fetishization of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC

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Unity of Doctrine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC

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Consciousness: A Compression-Based Approach

interstice16 Apr 2022 16:40 UTC

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A paradox of existence

Chris van Merwijk5 Apr 2022 9:45 UTC

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

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 16:12 UTC

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[untitled post]

superads916 Feb 2022 20:39 UTC

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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)

We need a theory of anthropic measure binding

mako yass30 Dec 2021 7:22 UTC

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[Question] What is a probabilistic physical theory?

Ege Erdil25 Dec 2021 16:30 UTC

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Can solipsism be disproven?

nx20594 Dec 2021 8:24 UTC

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2020 PhilPapers Survey Results

Rob Bensinger2 Nov 2021 5:00 UTC

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Hegel vs. GPT-3

Bezzi27 Oct 2021 5:55 UTC

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Book Review: Denial of Death

PatrickDFarley14 Oct 2021 4:28 UTC

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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

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Book Review: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein

Chris_Leong12 Oct 2021 20:14 UTC

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Book Review: Feeling Great by David Burns

Fei12 Oct 2021 16:32 UTC

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[Question] How can one train philosophical skill?

abramdemski30 Sep 2021 14:56 UTC

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Truth + Reason = The True Religion?

David Gross17 Sep 2021 22:14 UTC

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Philosophy Web—Project Proposal

SocratesDissatisfied24 Aug 2021 15:36 UTC

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In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

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(olitness.wordpress.com)

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

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

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(olitness.wordpress.com)

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC

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Paper Review: Mathematical Truth

Alex Hollow30 May 2021 20:25 UTC

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(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

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

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 3:58 UTC

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

June Ku29 Apr 2021 15:38 UTC

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The importance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC

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Some things I’ve learned in college

Aaron Bergman25 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC

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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

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Deflationism isn’t the solution to philosophy’s woes

Rob Bensinger10 Mar 2021 0:20 UTC

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What I’d change about different philosophy fields

Rob Bensinger8 Mar 2021 18:25 UTC

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[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

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On the nature of purpose

Nora_Ammann22 Jan 2021 8:30 UTC

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Fittingness: Rational success in concept formation

Polytopos10 Jan 2021 15:58 UTC

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

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

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Notes on Wisdom

David Gross14 Nov 2020 2:37 UTC

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Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_Leong1 Nov 2020 23:39 UTC

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

Callmesalticidae10 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC

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A Policy for Biting Bullets

eapache31 Aug 2020 21:00 UTC

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

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC

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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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misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC

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

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC

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Life as metaphor for everything else.

Charlie Steiner5 Apr 2020 7:21 UTC

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Necessity and Warrant

namespace1 Apr 2020 3:12 UTC

27 points

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(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Meta-preferences two ways: generator vs. patch

Charlie Steiner1 Apr 2020 0:51 UTC

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Puzzles for Physicalists

jessicata12 Mar 2020 1:37 UTC

46 points

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(unstableontology.com)

Gricean communication and meta-preferences

Charlie Steiner10 Feb 2020 5:05 UTC

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Philosophical self-ratification

jessicata3 Feb 2020 22:48 UTC

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(unstableontology.com)

On the ontological development of consciousness

jessicata25 Jan 2020 5:56 UTC

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(unstableontology.com)

Impossible moral problems and moral authority

Charlie Steiner18 Nov 2019 9:28 UTC

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A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular

Rob Bensinger11 Oct 2019 22:25 UTC

62 points

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Accelerate without humanity: Summary of Nick Land’s philosophy

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC

34 points

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

gwern17 May 2019 22:03 UTC

33 points

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(www.gwern.net)

Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC

65 points

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Philosophy as low-energy approximation

Charlie Steiner5 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC

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On first looking into Russell’s History

Richard_Ngo8 Nov 2018 11:20 UTC

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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Upcoming stability of values

Stuart_Armstrong15 Mar 2018 11:36 UTC

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Clarifying the Postmodernism Debate With Skeptical Modernism

Chris_Leong16 Feb 2018 9:40 UTC

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Shell, Shield, Staff

SquirrelInHell25 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC

11 points

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Empirical philosophy and inversions

Charlie Steiner29 Dec 2017 12:12 UTC

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Philosophy of Numbers (part 2)

Charlie Steiner19 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC

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Philosophy of Numbers (part 1)

Charlie Steiner2 Dec 2017 18:20 UTC

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Postmodernism for rationalists

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2017 12:20 UTC

3 points

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(palegreendot.net)

Leaving LessWrong for a more rational life

Mark_Friedenbach21 May 2015 19:24 UTC

46 points

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A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

Scott Alexander25 Jan 2015 20:42 UTC

56 points

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Six Plausible Meta-Ethical Alternatives

Wei Dai6 Aug 2014 0:04 UTC

84 points

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Mainstream Epistemology for LessWrong, Part 1: Feldman on Evidentialism

ChrisHallquist16 Nov 2013 16:16 UTC

30 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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A reply to Mark Linsenmayer about philosophy

lukeprog5 Jan 2013 11:25 UTC

30 points

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Ontological Crisis in Humans

Wei Dai18 Dec 2012 17:32 UTC

78 points

69 comments4 min readLW link

Help Reform A Philosophy Curriculum

JonathanLivengood8 Dec 2012 22:45 UTC

38 points

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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant

lukeprog6 Dec 2012 0:42 UTC

112 points

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

lukeprog29 Nov 2012 21:00 UTC

40 points

169 comments4 min readLW link

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

Jayson_Virissimo26 Sep 2012 12:25 UTC

55 points

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Eliezer’s Sequences and Mainstream Academia

lukeprog15 Sep 2012 0:32 UTC

236 points

148 comments4 min readLW link

Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules

pragmatist8 Aug 2012 4:27 UTC

33 points

237 comments9 min readLW link

To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC

41 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

Philosophy that can be “taken seriously by computer scientists”

lukeprog27 Dec 2011 2:39 UTC

30 points

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LW Philosophers versus Analytics

Ronny Fernandez28 Nov 2011 15:40 UTC

50 points

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Living Metaphorically

lukeprog28 Nov 2011 15:01 UTC

33 points

78 comments7 min readLW link

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

lukeprog26 Oct 2011 11:57 UTC

32 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Concepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 2:01 UTC

85 points

92 comments8 min readLW link

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

DanielVarga15 Aug 2011 22:51 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Music: The 21st Century Monads

XiXiDu25 Jun 2011 10:38 UTC

19 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

diegocaleiro13 Apr 2011 19:45 UTC

39 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprog28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC

145 points

447 comments7 min readLW link

Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy

lukeprog20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC

161 points

334 comments5 min readLW link

Settled questions in philosophy

lukeprog16 Feb 2011 6:53 UTC

56 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

Philosophers and seeking answers

Scott Alexander4 Feb 2011 22:51 UTC

41 points

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Metaphilosophical Mysteries

Wei Dai27 Jul 2010 0:55 UTC

53 points

266 comments3 min readLW link

Shut Up and Divide?

Wei Dai9 Feb 2010 20:09 UTC

113 points

276 comments1 min readLW link

You don’t need Kant

1 Apr 2009 18:09 UTC

21 points

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Against Modal Logics

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Aug 2008 22:13 UTC

65 points

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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jul 2008 10:16 UTC

119 points

81 comments10 min readLW link

The Ultimate Source

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jun 2008 9:01 UTC

74 points

80 comments8 min readLW link

A Broken Koan

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 May 2008 19:04 UTC

8 points

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Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2008 7:06 UTC

57 points

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Dissolving the Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2008 3:17 UTC

134 points

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The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism”

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jan 2008 16:29 UTC

78 points

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A Priori

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2007 21:02 UTC

80 points

133 comments4 min readLW link

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