The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

Friday, January 27, 2023

Hedonic Offsetting for Harms to Artificial Intelligence?

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Suppose that we someday create artificially intelligent systems (AIs) who are capable of genuine consciousness, real joy and real suffering....
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

New Paper in Draft: Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo! Plus, the Problem of Causal Specification

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I have a new paper in draft: "Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo!" Check it out here . As always, objections, comment...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

Further Methodological Troubles for the Moralometer

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[This post draws on ideas developed in collaboration with psychologist Jessie Sun .] If we want to study morality scientifically, we should ...
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Friday, January 06, 2023

The Design Policy of the Excluded Middle

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According to the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle, as Mara Garza and I have articulated it ( here and here ), we ought to avoid creat...
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Sunday, January 01, 2023

Writings of 2022

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Every New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 ...
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Thursday, December 29, 2022

The Moral Status of Alien Microbes, Plus a Thought about Artificial Life

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Some scientists think it's quite possible we will soon find evidence of microbial life in the Solar System, if not on Mars, then maybe...
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

The Moral Measurement Problem: Four Flawed Methods

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[This post draws on ideas developed in collaboration with psychologist Jessie Sun .] So you want to build a moralometer -- that is, a dev...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument

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Would a neuron-for-neuron silicon isomorph of you have conscious experiences? Or is there something special about the biology of neurons, s...
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