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The Mother of All Trolley Problems
A runaway trolley is racing toward your child. Do nothing and they’ll be killed. Flip a switch, though, and you’ll divert the trolley onto a side track, saving your child but killing the strangers there. If there’s only one stranger, the ch...
If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799)
When researchers find themselves on opposite sides of a debate, their custom is to write articles defending their own view and attacking rivals. But given the human tendency...
The Take-Home Essay Is Dead
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628
You never understand a topic as well as when you write about it. Why? Partly because writing is thinking, and partly because explaining an idea to a real or imagined audience...
Woke 2 Will Be About AI
In some circles, just using the word “woke” will brand you as a reactionary. But whatever term we use, we need some way to talk about rapid changes in left-wing political culture over the last fifteen years. At the risk of oversimplifying,...
Claude Passes Peer Review
Earlier this week, a highly selective philosophy journal knowingly published an article generated largely by AI. Claude, an LLM from Anthropic, wrote an essay in political philosophy for Philosophy & Public Affairs. Simon Goldstein, a profe...
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Ethicist and cognitive scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. PhD UC Santa Barbara. Studies moral controversies about AI, factory farming, neurodiversity, and other heady topics.
The future is description without place - the categorical predicate, the arc.
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