Jack's Lab
Jack ThompsonPrinceton student researcher in philosophy of mind, digital sentience, & AI alignment.
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Why I am not (yet) a theist
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I met Matthew Adelstein, aka Bentham’s Bulldog, at Princeton in the spring. I asked him if, as a fellow effective altruist and utilitarian, the existence of God had any bearing on what I should do. He frowned, paused fo...
Phenomenal infallibility does no good
Last week, I wrote about a really sucky argument about language and infallibility about consciousness. The idea being that if someone makes a claim like “I am in pain,” they are either:
- Connecting what they feel right now to something...
This argument sucks and I hate it
The following argument sucks. That is: in my gut I really feel like it is a form of cheap sophistry, but I think it is probably correct; I cannot come up with a good reason why it’s wrong. Now, maybe that just means it’s really effective so...
What I want from digital minds research, in 10 minutes
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I’m a big fan of a lot of digital minds research, and I also think most of it is wrongheaded. When I tell non-readers this, they have a hard time understanding why, especially if they lack philosophical background. So her...
How to prove materialism
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I think there is a 30% chance that materialism is false, and conscious experience consists in private, intrinsic, ineffable, non-physical qualia. If this is true, these qualia are probably forever beyond the reach o...
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