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The Philosophy of the Out-of-Office Email
These messages can be a rote obligation or an opportunity to make a grand statement about work and life.…
Are There Fairies in Our Midst?
A new book joins a growing corpus on enchantment.…
Did Thomas Jefferson Come Up With 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'? No, John Locke Did.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty…
Joining the three-quarter-century club
The older you get, the more you understand the difference between life-span and health-span…
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company
Silicon Valley is turning to philosophers to help build better bots.…
Simulated Reality
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. …
What Is Human Flourishing — And Why Does It Matter Now?
Prosperity, in its deepest sense, is no longer just about material success Increasingly, people are asking: What does it truly mean to flourish?…
open-spdd: Design Philosophy
A SPDD AI Coding Assistant Command Template Manager - gszhangwei/open-spdd…
What Dogs See
To understand a painting, look for the canine.…
Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciou…
Does any one have any notes or comments on the Philosophy of Coding?
The Value of Science – Poincare [pdf]
Edgar Morin
The AI Takeover Has Arrived
...but it looks completely different from what we imagined…
French sociologist, philosopher and intellectual provocateur Edgar Morin has died aged 104
He never ceased to reflect on historical events in a relentless head-to-head confrontation with the century. Committed to connecting different fields of knowledge to develop his 'c…
Will AI become conscious? What a philosopher and a neuroscientist think
The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we could be heading towards a future with conscious machines,…
A quebra de um ideal: o choque entre a filosofia open-source e a realidade do mercado
Aprendi as coisas mais fascinantes que sei com as lendas da cultura hacker. Minha base técnica e...…
Is AI The Anti-Christ?
Some thinking out loud about Magnifica Humanitas.…
Organic Thinking: The Philosopher's Salon
Right now, we're on a plane that has been hijacked by 5-10 really smart but misanthropic people. They have a lot of money. They have made a long series of go...…
Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination
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Games matter because games don't matter, says a philosopher
In bridge, a heart trick earns 30 points while a club trick earns 20, numbers that mean nothing outside of the game. That's the whole point, argues philosopher C. Thi……
Lusory attitude
On Discovering A Philosophy Of Hope
Life does not open doors equally for everyone. Yet a closed door does not mean a closed future. Progress is rarely linear and there is always hope.…
Social Media’s Not-So-Bad Idea: Analog Summer
There was a time in my life when I could have recited Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments from beginning to end. That, Ben Hur, and a collection of Veggie Tales and Little House…
A Prescient Poem About AI
A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,… The post A Prescient Poem About AI appeared first on Reason.co…
What should I ask Richard Hanania?
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him. Richard does have a new book coming out, Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster. While I liked the book (and blurbed it), I do …
Nine months without a rewrite
When was your company's MVV last rewritten? At 25h, it has stayed untouched for nine months. Not because it is unfinished.…
What's it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?
Michael Anton sits down with Eli Lake to discuss the life of Harry Jaffa, the forgotten philosopher who spent 40 years proving the Declaration of Independence means exactly what it…
Can liberals be pacifists?
This is mostly a podcast about Benjamin Britten, and in particular his War Requiem, with Rebecca Lowe (former singer and conductor, in addition to philosopher and also her current …
Alexander Dugin versus Sydney Sweeney
The Thinker Who Foresaw Pope Leo’s Critique of AI
In his posthumously published final book, The Rivers North of the Future, the social critic, philosopher, and renegade Catholic priest Ivan Illich argued that humanity’s relation t…
Ayn Rand Is Alive in Ankara
Objectivism in Turkey has risen and fallen in recent decades, but is newly rejuvenated.…
Google DeepMind hires philosophers to address AI ethics and morality
Google DeepMind hired Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin to tackle AI ethics, machine consciousness, and moral status of AI as the industry races toward AGI.…
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?…
Does any one have any notes or comments on the Philosophy of Coding?
Chinese Room re-visited: How LLM's have real but different understanding of word
TL;DR • The Chinese Room argument implies that computer programs can never really understand language. In this post, I’ll argue that LLM’s have a lim……
Yuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep Making
The best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Nexus” discusses the core delusions deranging our politics.…
Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
Spacetime Formation under Requirements: Contextual Realization and Form-Dependent Probability
Quantum cognition often explains order effects, contextuality, and violations of the law of total probability by replacing classical probability with quantum probability on a fixed…
Does the Spirit of Bruce Lee Have Something to Offer the Non-Martial Artist?
Explore Bruce Lee's philosophy and its lessons beyond martial arts for life and spirituality.…
Consequentialism
Consciousness might be a fundamental feature of reality, like gravity
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption. The assumption is that consciousness is…
Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
Arguing why a simulation is not required to explain live, and that logic itself is sufficient.…
The Anti-Woke Teacher America Desperately Needs Again
By Lawrence Meyers…
Robert Wright's the God Test
The subtitle is Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, due out June 23. In the first chapter, Wright summarizes four of his perspectives, these are my paraphrases…
The post-May '68 Christian philosophy now being embraced by the American far right
Trump supporters often blame the cultural upheavals triggered by the May 1968 protests in France for sowing the seeds of 'wokeness.' Yet some of them are now claiming a different F…
Reading Log #8 — Aoashi Finite and Infinite Games Imagined Communities
A storied club is an imagined community made of shared story (Anderson); its culture is by nature an infinite game / magic circle (Carse). When soccer becomes 'appeal' and a mercil…
You can do everything right and things can still go wrong. “Moral luck” is a way to live with that.
This radical philosophical idea can free you from a lifetime of unnecessary guilt.…
The Meaning of Doing Mathematics
Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving? This essay is my attempt to a…
Robert Wright’s *The God Test*
The subtitle is Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, due out June 23. In the first chapter, Wright summarizes four of his perspectives, these are my paraphrases…
'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review
Introduction to the Zohar explores exile, desire, and repair, presenting the Baal HaSulam’s ladder as a path to inner spiritual transformation.…
Vico, Descartes, and decay of knowledge in software
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Brian Johns goes cosmic.…
Sleeping Beauty and Observer Multiplicity
This manuscript develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the Sleeping Beauty problem by clearly separating world-level probability from conditional self-locating uncertainty. …
Do you think Linux actually is adherent to Unix philosophy?
Waiting for Godot is a lament for our times
The play speaks to a generation that has had its sense of time, space and attentive consciousness fractured by the promethean power of the new information age…
The Bicameral Mind, the Voice of God, & the Terrifying Origin of Consciousness
What if everything you thought you knew about your own mind was wrong?…
*In the Realm of the Last Man*
As Mark Lilla, a recovering Straussian, once remarked, they [the Straussians] were like craftsmen building a house brick by brick on a foundation that Leo Strauss had laid. But th…