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Does it matter if robots suffer?
Can you abuse something that can’t suffer?
Anthropic, the company behind the AI Claude, recently added an interesting prohibition to its policy, ruling out:
Sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.
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The Trichotomy of Control Is a Mistake (Episode 236)
Some things are up to you. Some are not. What about the things you can influence?
That question led William Irvine to turn Epictetus’s dichotomy of control into a trichotomy: things you control, things you don’t, and things you partly cont...
The Buddhist Hard Stop
Today’s letter is adapted from our new course on Buddhism in Stoa. Listen here.
Every day, our life is full of sensations.
Most of them we don’t even notice anymore: The noise from your neighbors, the texture of your shirt on your...
A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others
Marcus Aurelius’s memoranda to himself – words to return to again and again.
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Labour not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off y...
Anger loves to feel righteous
This piece comes from our new set of routines On Anger. Listen in the Stoa app.
Anger requires the idea that we have been harmed by somebody or something.
But there is a second part to anger, a magnifying force. Anger loves to feel...
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PhD in philosophy. I study and write about how Stoicism and ancient philosophy can improve our lives.
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