Sitemap - 2022 - Philosophy bear
The Chinese Room is not a lookup table
The king and his wicked advisors
Reminder- Sydney discussion group coming up Also, a new anthology is coming
The tragedy of the artistic intellect and artificial intellect
Let me ask you a stupid question about academic publishing
Some very important blog updates plus verbal parity forecasting
Is there scope for a left rationalism?
SBF, FTX, EA & LT: my reflections and asking some tough questions about effective alturism and power
Bots- a brief warning for the left
Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice it because we keep shifting the bar
Why I don't think Musk's blue checkmark plan will work and how we can help kill Twitter faster
A list of the reasons for the Anglophone left to be optimistic
A short comment on longtermism and "dark longtermism"
A list of the problems we face on the left
Teachers, fascism and forgiveness- miscellaneous reflections
We are the parasite- a decelerationist creed
How would people feel about me setting up paid subscriptions?
Only God can judge Kanye West: refusing the spectacle of judgement and judgement of the spectacle
The unknown face and flow of wanting: Theses on the philosophy of desire
Towards a new methodology for evaluating economic welfare and assessing policy
Tweets, tweets, tweets- My favourite tweets by me in the last two months
The common interest: Queen Elizabeth, professionalism and welfare economics
By the Vector of a Blade Part II
By the Vector of a Blade part I
By a Vector of the Blade- Star Wars fan fic teaser
The odd thing about Monkeypox right now is it's increasing concentration in America
Draft copy of the book is out, read it here
A thought experiment on retributive punishment and why it's bad
Womanhood, transgender women and tedious definitional debates
A brief reply to Scott Aaronson's- "We Are the God of the Gaps"
What the UN didn't want you to see! (Sort of) plus much, much more.
Some stolen ideas on dynamic memetics
Four speculative fiction ideas I like
GPT-3 is -right now- already more than capable of enabling student plagiarism
Against John Searle, Gary Marcus, the Chinese Room thought experiment and its world
If things are getting really bad, what should we do?
Just read the Damn Book of All Hours- my (losing) entry for Scott Alexander's book review contest
Results of the survey on Dark Secrets, part one
A theory and a musical request
Miscellaneous thoughts on the right wing of politics
The Dark Secrets Survey is out
Secrets and songs, what I'm working on at the moment
Why I don't think identity verification will save us from the coming bot-swarm
This is it: The medium term future in AI and how the left-wing should respond
Hot takes, hot takes, get em' like hot cakes
Twitter -or at least a portion thereof- is an honour culture
My big bet on the future of AI: Verbal parity
Update on Russian equipment losses: Oryx numbers
Ukrainian claims about Russian losses- some statistics
Government Watch: An idea for an NGO
Donations to the "Freedom Convoy" a statistical overview
The Antinomies of Welfare Economics
Why buying a luxury car is disappointing in a way buying three houses isn't
My roleplaying setting scrapbook part 2
The greatest potential for censorship is in the algorithm, not in the bans
The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context
For the working class, real weekly wages haven't risen in 55 years.