Conspicuous Cognition
Dan Williams, Robert Wright, Thomas Prosser, Robert Long, Edmund King, David Pinsof, Benjamin Todd, Alexander Kustov, Tibor Rutar, Henry ShevlinWriter. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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Writer. Academic philosopher. PhD from University of Cambridge, 2018. Writes about: philosophy, social science, evolution, artificial intelligence, politics.
Author of The Evolution of God, Nonzero, The Moral Animal, and Why Buddhism Is True. Host of the Nonzero podcast. Publisher of the Nonzero newsletter on Substack.
Professor at Cardiff University and author of The Path Not Taken, a (free) Substack which analyzes politics using theories of ideologies and institutions.
Executive Director and Cofounder of Eleos AI. Before that: Center for AI Safety, Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, PhD in philosophy at NYU.
Writer and academic based in the United Kingdom. Formerly posted under the handle @ghostofchristo1.
Evolutionary social scientist, co-host of Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast), writes about the psychology and sociology of bullshit.
Founder of 80,000 Hours. Writing about the AI transition and what you can do about it.
Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular." Professor. Immigration policy, public opinion, AI (?), and effective governance.
Sociology prof. at the University of Maribor
Philosopher of mind and AI ethicist. I write about machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, video games, the Fermi paradox, fan-fiction, and whatever else catches my attention. Congenital AI optimist. Views my own.
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