Conspicuous Cognition
Dan Williams, Robert Wright, Robert Long, Fin Moorhouse, Benjamin Todd, Judith Dada, Alexander Kustov, Tibor Rutar, Henry ShevlinWriter. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 133 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness
Steven Pinker has recently been involved in a heated argument about AI and existential risk. In September, the rationalist and blogging legend Scott Alexander challenged him to a public debate, frustrated by his criticisms of the arguments...
The Crooked Timber of Humanitarians of Tinder
Years ago, somebody showed me ‘Humanitarians of Tinder’, a website collecting Tinder profiles in which white Westerners posed with poor people (mostly African children) in the Global South, presumably while volunteering.
The site’s message...
Woke 1 Was Lazy
The fight for social justice in an era of half-arsed politics
A few years ago, during the peak of the Great Awokening shortly after the killing of George Floyd, I saw an academic I know post something on Twitter along these lines: “I agree...
Wishful Thinking Is (Mostly) A Myth - Unpaywalled
I’ve been on holiday, so this week I’m removing the paywall from an essay published earlier this year. New essays and other content will be back next week.
I’ve added “mostly” to the title to make clear that I’m not claiming there i...
GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’
There is currently much debate about how impressive frontier AI models really are and what role they can play in research, including in academic philosophy. To get some evidence, I asked GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new model, to review my book, ‘...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Executive Director and Cofounder of Eleos AI. Before that: Center for AI Safety, Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, PhD in philosophy at NYU.
Writing about the future
Founder of 80,000 Hours. Writing about the AI transition and what you can do about it.
I write a blog about AI, society, and Europe. Making sense of a world that is getting crazier by the minute. Digesting in public.
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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