Conspicuous Cognition
Dan Williams, Thomas Prosser, Robert Long, Edmund King, David Pinsof, Henry ShevlinWriter. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 115 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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How Brexit Created Britain’s New Political Tribes
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Almost all of the discussion about the risks associated with AI focuses on the dangers that increasingly advanced AI systems pose to us — to humanity. But what about the dangers that we might pose to them? As these systems become increasing...
On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 3)
The reality of progress, the fragility of civilisation, the left’s role in making the world both better and worse, the case for capitalism, and how to think about “the West”
When I was in my early twenties, I had a very left-wing view of t...
Wishful Thinking Is A Myth
How social games, not comforting falsehoods, distort what we believe.
Many people believe that human beings have a powerful tendency to convince ourselves of comforting falsehoods. We engage in wishful thinking, confusing our desires with...
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Writer. Academic philosopher. PhD from University of Cambridge, 2018. Writes about: philosophy, social science, evolution, artificial intelligence, politics.
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.
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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