Sitemap - 2023 - Philosophy bear

A time to reflect

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 particular type of man

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

Against the Rowling Roll

I have a question for those supporting Israel's actions

On Palestinian figures, an absolute minimum estimate is that 72% of those killed in Gaza have been non-combatants

Group hypocrisy on free speech is possible, even in the absence of individual hypocrisy (short)

Behold the dreamer

How the aftermath of The Voice campaign sums up conservatism

Gaza

Blame and uncertainty

Two reflections on AI

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

The Room and Matt Christman

Words I can't spell despite being a graduate student in Philosophy

The view from utopia

The cupboards of perfection

Why I'm voting for the voice

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

Verbal disputes over logic

Concentric circles of morality

A brief case for wild research

In defense of self-promotion

The bear postulate and other observations about clerical work

Kindness, mitigation

A critique of pure conservatism

A collection of some of my better notes

Critical Bear update: Antonia the dwarf polar bear

A metaphilosophy

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

The color of obligation

A defense of ethical subjectivism

Against THE LITERATURE : A plea for philosophical arrogance

Bleeding hearts and bleeding backs: Why we shouldn't be so quick to eliminate beatings from the labour market

Is it bad to want a badie? Why, contra D'Alessandro we shouldn't try to eliminate a romantic preference for the attractive.

There is utility

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

Depression drugs might work better than we think (or worse) because depression scales have a severe flaw

I don't think there's a conspiracy among AI scientists to trick the public into thinking AI might kill everyone

Philosophy Bear's best essays

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

Join my chat

Misc musings

"Mid" is unfalsifiable

A short comment on self-defense and "what if he had a gun"

No passive genocide

Pathological fear is, in a real sense, cancer

The value of uniqueness

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

FYI on comments

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

I'm coming up the the part of my career where I need to get publishing papers- wanna co-author something?

GPT, of any extant edition, can't properly see inside of words, or breakdown their individual characters.

On the right to steal for dignity and the preservation of life

You are not entitled to feel proud of your ancestors

The war for heaven: or why even in utopia, values do not converge and arms race dynamics around AI can be rational

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

The human sacrifice economy

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

Republishing an old essay in light of current news on Bing's AI: "Regarding Blake Lemoine's claim that LaMDA is 'sentient', he might be right (sorta), but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks"

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

A prison skeptic's manifesto

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?

ChatGPT understands langauge

Was it greed what killed the hen that laid that golden egg? Fact checking, monopoly power, corporate greed, inflation, and eggs

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

Are any readers with a background in philosophy or economics keen to collaborate on academic work with me?

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

The Wisdom of the ghosts

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