Jack's Lab
Jack ThompsonPrinceton student researcher in philosophy of mind, digital sentience, & AI alignment.
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Can brains suffer?
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One of the misconceptions about illusionism is that it denies the reality of conscious experiences. It is only meant to deny that conscious experiences have special metaphysical properties like privacy, ineffability, intr...
Complexity is a cop-out
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I lean illusionist and preference welfarist. Should I be nice to my thermostat? It has a goal (temperature set point) and sends signals to try to achieve that goal. Is it morally wrong to leave my windows open in th...
Does illusionism kill sentientism?
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The argument
Sentientism is the view that moral patienthood is grounded in sentience: typically, the capacity to have positive and negative experiences, like pleasure and pain.
Why does one believe pain is bad...
Can I kick the robot? (Or, illusionism and moral realism)
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For several weeks, I have been circling the idea that illusionism leads to moral anti-realism.
The dialogue that follows is enough to make me question moral realism, which I have never seriously questioned before b...
Empty "seemings" & qualia realism
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[Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question : ‘Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?’ I replied : ‘I suppose, because...
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