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@ The Pacific: Good questions. My point isn’t that journals can’t adopt that stance, only that I won’t referee for…
It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…
Does AI really pose an existential risk? Answer: Yes. Reason: There is a pattern of people leaving these companies (foregoing…
This is a load of cobblers. Philosophers need to read more Searle & watch less 2001. Computers, however fancy, are…
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…
One provocative read (if you can get past the sensationalistic headline) is econ blogger Noah Smith’s substack post from last…
Yes. This topic is hard to talk about because it ticks all the boxes for what one might rave about…
Several readers have pointed out that a philosopher, Catherine Rowett (East Anglia) was among those elected to the European Parliament in the recent elections–she ran as a Green MP. As classicist Benjamin Harriman (Edinburgh) wrote: "She is a specialist in the Presocratics and in Plato, particularly the Republic, making her election to the cave even more interesting." Indeed!
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