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Schmotte and Bailey: Pledge
(This is an important post, so I’d really appreciate if you shared it and restacked it—thanks!)
Friend of the blog writes about the Schmotte and Bailey fallacy. You tell people to do one relatively uncontroversial thing. They claim that...
Giant Dialogues
From the BFG
Bloodbottler: I read your piece “Humans Matter in the Aggregate More Than Giants.” That one provoked a big reaction on giant Twitter (as big of a reaction as one can get from the ~80 giants that live in the world). Did you see...
Leif Wenar’s Bad Criticisms of Effective Altruism
Do effective altruists need to grow up? Leif Wenar thinks so—and has written as much in a recent edition of The Economist. However, if poor reasoning, assuming one’s conclusion with little in support of it, and downright bizarre argumentati...
*Of Course* Conscious AI Would Matter Morally
Torturing the machines
Recently, someone built a real-life AI torture chamber. After functional analogues of pain were identified in AI models, this person decided to dial them up to hideous degrees. Here were some of the AI’s logs:...
Deontologists Must Hope They Do the Wrong Thing
Philosopher extraordinaire has a paper pressing a pretty forceful objection to deontology: it seems deontologists are on the hook for thinking that third parties should hope that people do the wrong thing, in cases where utilitarianism and...
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