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 | 128 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI
Epistemic status: big picture, speculative; the long-form writing equivalent of thinking out loud.
Recently, I told a friend I had been reading a philosopher’s writings about AI. He scoffed: “What does a philosopher know about AI?”...
Navigating the Intelligence Explosion (with Fin Moorhouse)
What would happen if the amount of intelligence and ingenuity devoted to science and technology exploded over a short period of time, compressing a century of technological progress into one decade?
In this episode, Henry and I speak with...
The Social Roots of Delusions
Today is the official publication date of The Social Roots of Delusions, a book that I co-authored with Sam Wilkinson and Kengo Miyazono.
Unless you’re a member of the billionaire class, you probably can’t afford to buy it at the price Oxf...
We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human Ignorance
The central thesis of Thomas Sowell’s ‘A Conflict of Visions’ is that an enduring conflict between two competing visions of human nature and society drives much of the high-level disagreement we observe in politics.
According to the “const...
Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada)
‘Europe 2031’ presents a scenario in which a sequence of individually understandable decisions over the next several years leaves Europe economically weaker, strategically dependent on the United States, and eventually unable to shape its o...
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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.
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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