Sitemap - 2023 - Philosophy bear
A brief comment on the political pathologies of timidity
Agency, structure, love and moralism
How many times am I going to hear a variation of this speech?
Some predictions about the future of AI safety and EA if the current trajectory continues
A new (and for the most part, fun) questionnaire
Waking up on the 14/11/2023 with OCD
Inadmissable knowledge: Introducing a concept
If you're worried about having kids because they will contribute to climate change, you shouldn't be
Everyone has the right to live where they have made their life
I have a question for those supporting Israel's actions
Group hypocrisy on free speech is possible, even in the absence of individual hypocrisy (short)
How the aftermath of The Voice campaign sums up conservatism
Together we can save Niko Tiliopoulos
More than eleven philosophical ideas Bear wants to publish, but needs a collaborator for
Against first-world third-worldism
Statistics, Shakespeare and Sam Bankman-Fried
Infinite worlds beyond language
Words I can't spell despite being a graduate student in Philosophy
Is the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy going to die?
A minimum word count for journal articles is among the dumbest ideas prevalent in academia
Conservatives and the metaphysics of killing
Has Bayesianism made traditional epistemology obsolete?
The Green Eyed Monster: Philosophical and political notes on envy
Yet another think piece on the dismal science
A thread for sharing your crazy ideas
Cosmologists HATE him: I'm now a halfer about sleeping beauty because of this one weird trick
Stop using "insecure" and "fragile" as euphemisms for bad behavior
A general argument for the left
Continuity of consciousness (short)
Fifty-four ideas from a philosophical bear
We need another Expert Survey on Progress in AI urgently
Authors should stop being silly about AI and actually do something about it
Concentric circles of morality
A brief case for wild research
The bear postulate and other observations about clerical work
A critique of pure conservatism
A collection of some of my better notes
Critical Bear update: Antonia the dwarf polar bear
Is there good reason to forgive off-color jokes when they're especially funny?
There is no right to dislike people
Moral wiggle room and tender consciences
People will call any poetry terrible
A defense of ethical subjectivism
Against THE LITERATURE : A plea for philosophical arrogance
Why it's rational to 'trust the science' but not the government
Fourteen questions about the philosophy of OCD
Tiling the universe and 'simple' theories of wellbeing plus an update on my life
But why does history repeat itself first as tragedy then as farce?
Gender Abolitionist Shouldn't Mean Anti-Trans + The Value of Sadness
Why does the right lie so much on social media?
What would go through my head if I found out aliens were visiting us
Yelling into the storm- a protest against mental agony
Questions on death- reading Mortals: Part 1
A simple reason to think traditional decision theory has an optimism bias
AI image generation over 2.5 years
Metaethics moulds morality in the real world: some cases
A short comment on self-defense and "what if he had a gun"
Pathological fear is, in a real sense, cancer
Dialogue from a dream I had about free will
Asher + The possibility of social choice
A complete (?) list of the reasons people do things others consider wrong
Many worlds and the solution to the Sleeping beauty problem
Racism, "Prejudice plus power" and the semantics/pragmatics divide in language
How to cleave the right in two
Hitler's jig and two types of people
The tragic quality of wonder in a competitive attention economy
That Law and Economics is an ideologically captured discipline
Pre-registering some brief guesses about the future of Large Language Models
On the right to steal for dignity and the preservation of life
You are not entitled to feel proud of your ancestors
Six ways to disagree with an argument (have I left anything out?)
Brief reflections on quantum theology: The Many Worlds Interpretation and Abrahamic religions
The solution to the AI cheating crisis is, obviously, exams
AI and the left: A position statement
Five reasons to treat Large Language Models as if they have ethical value now
The memory of a machine: Explorations in recall with GPT-4
Some preliminary notes towards a *real* Cost-Benefit analysis of prisons
Brief reflections on the launch of GPT-4 and the future of intellectuals
Rationalism and social rationalism
Under heaven's eyes: For the dignity of consequentialism
Miscellaneous thoughts about the future
Calculating Average Happiness is Actually Pretty Simple
Looking for examples of a social phenomenon
Some slapdash notes on making Analytic Political Philosophy relevant
What I've written (or at least the bits of it I want to preserve)
Time compression & the Voice referendum
Chatbotocyplase 2, The botten-ing: A response to Scott Alexander on Chatbots
This one's for the error files- but only technically- image generators and plagarism
What percentage of cops are bastards?
Big hopes, humble hearts: How should the philosopher see themself?
Aesthetics, morality, the past and the future: reflections
Perhaps I'm crazy, but I'm not wrong: all 18 year old's should have six votes
Analytic philosophy in Jacobin and the Analytic philosophy wars- a brief comment
Kurosawans versus Eastwoodians: what drives conflict?
A free anthology of my best writing on artificial intelligence
Head injury, autism and dementia: A brief conjecture
Why I never thought COVID lockdowns were likely to threaten civil liberties in the long term
Social media outrage is driven by something like a base rates fallacy