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Can AI get a publication in a prestigious philosophy journal by 2028? The philosophy journal test of AI.
Cyber Socrates? Digital Descartes? Computer Confucius? AI Anscombe? LLM Locke? Machine Montesquieu? Robot Rousseau? Hal 9000 Hypatia? Blip Boop Buddha…
Mar 24
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We should protect privacy because it lets people get away with crime and other wrongdoings
Privacy advocates are wusses because they won’t talk about the best reason to oppose creeping surveillance: allowing people to get away with doing the…
Mar 22
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You’re not going to stop AI by pretending to be unimpressed by it: rant
Some of this stuff drives me up the wall, tbh. I was listening to Chapo the other day, and they were talking about SORA (the new video generator from…
Mar 20
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Portubots and Englifleshes: Why comparative advantage doesn't guarantee there will always be jobs for humans
[Speaking of jobs, if anyone knows of any work going from Sydney or remotely- let me know. Also, if you’ve been thinking about subscribing as thanks for…
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The moral urgency of a good study on cold showers and depression & anxiety
The potential benefits are huge, the costs are minimal and if it works it could make all the difference for a lot of people
Mar 14
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Aella: In defence of a birthday girl
This is, for the most part a pretty PG blog, although there’s certainly no taboo on sex here. This post, though, will not be PG. The short version of…
Mar 5
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I have access to Claude-3 Opus, a (seemingly) considerably more advanced model than GPT-4, ask it anything
This model is, by the scores, considerably more advanced at reasoning than GPT-4: Let’s zoom in on perhaps the most impressive result here, the GPQA…
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Impartial giving, a la Effective Alturism, is not a politically neutral idea (v. short)
Recently I did some research on impartiality in which I showed that, in my sample, leftwing respondents were (seemingly) more likely to display ethical…
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February 2024
Personal updates
It’s been a big year already. I’ve just been informed I am to be awarded a PhD thesis without revisions, a result I scarcely dared to hope for. I’m…
Feb 26
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A bear is confused about desire
The nature of existence is unsatisfactoriness, and I want to be unsatisfied, but is that the end of the story? I find myself confronting some difficult…
Feb 22
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The ethical is the political
I have never heard an in-depth discussion by a normative ethicist about the relationship between ethical and political beliefs. I mean this in a…
Feb 19
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On creativity and language models
Two commentators on my blog, both of whom I respect greatly, but who I will not name because I haven’t cleared it with them, were having a debate about…
Feb 15
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