After I wrote about AI last time (https://fakenous.substack.com/p/are-we-on-the-verge-of-true-ai), some readers urged me to take more seriously AI existential risk, i.e., the threat that AI is going to kill all humans. Here, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky freaks out about this…
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Here I explain when and why simplicity is a theoretical virtue.* [*Based on: “When Is Parsimony a Virtue?” Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2009): 216-36…
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pronouns, land acknowledgements, etc.
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Here, I solve the problem of induction for you.* [ *Based on: “Explanationist Aid for the Theory of Inductive Logic,” British Journal for the Philosophy…
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How many times have I heard people predicting an impending disaster that never materialized? 1. The Big Earthquake As far as I recall, it began when I…
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Here, I explain some problems with drug prohibition.* [ *Based on: “The Drug Laws Don’t Work,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, no. 41 (2008): 71-5. ] (Note…
For the past two months, I’ve been hearing people going on about Chat GPT, the AI system that apparently does a better job at natural language…
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Here, I explain the proof of the Repugnant Conclusion.* [* Based on “In Defence of Repugnance,” Mind 117 (2008): 899-933.] 1. The “Repugnant” Conclusion…
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