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Silver Linings

Dan Silver

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The Sociology of Machine Morality

ChatGPT summary of the below: alignment researchers may be attempting to form the moral character of individual agents while inadvertently creating social environments that form a different moral character through collective life.

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The Social Chain of Thought

My PhD supervisor — or as they say in Germany, my Doktorvater — was the German social theorist, Hans Joas. I rarely speak to him nowadays, but, even so, he talks with me almost every day. For pretty much any idea I want to consider writing...

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Breaching Experiments and the Sociology of Machines

Last week, I started a series of posts reporting some of the projects in Artificial Social Intelligence that arose from my seminar on the topic. Today’s post summarizes a terrific project, by Kevin Dang. Kevin is an undergraduate student at...

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Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception

My seminar on Artificial Social Intelligence was extremely rich and stimulating. One of the best parts was that we had a wide range of participants, from sociology, political science, computer science, engineering, and information sciences,...

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Why do philosophers think that they know everything?

My University of Toronto colleague Joe Heath had another banger essay go viral the other day, “Why do sociologists think that they are critical theorists?”

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