The Splintered Mind

New paper in draft! In 2015, Mara Garza and I briefly proposed what we called the Emotional Alignment Design Policy -- the idea that AI...

By a universal theory of consciousness , I mean a theory that would apply not just to humans but to all non-human animals, all possible AI s...

In the history of Earth, no one -- not even Mike Furr -- as far as I'm aware, has ever attempted to construct a serious, scientific mea...

Overall, on average, do societies improve morally over time? If maybe not in actual behavior, at least in expressed attitudes about right v...

Types and Degrees of Indistinguishability The Turing test (introduced by Alan Turing in a 1950 article ) treats linguistic indistinguisha...

Opening teaser: 1. A Beautifully Happy AI Servant. It's difficult not to adore Klara, the charmingly submissive and well-intention...

Strange that it need be said, but yes, diversity, equity, and inclusion are good things. I can understand some of the backlash against effo...

The Features Take a moment to introspect. Examine a few of your conscious experiences. What features do they share -- and might these fe...

I love bad art. Gather some friends and create some bad music . Cruise in a car covered with graffiti doodles . Hand a five-year-old cra...

Yesterday, Rivka Weinberg spoke at UCR from her forthcoming book, The Meaning of It All, on how time erodes meaning. As is often noted, i...

by Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel Twelve years ago, one of us (ES) distinguished two kinds of theories: superficial and deep. Nearly ...

Saturday's post finding that only 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women brought out the misogynist bros on Twitter, but...

In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to an ethics of harmonizing with the Dao . Invoking "the Dao" might sound mystical, non-Wester...

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