philosopher, senior research fellow at @mercatus, writing about freedom and all the other cool things 🚀
arlington VA (originally DH1)
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sick of all this fighting about ai consciousness? want some clarity about these matters, or some help in taking on your opponents? check out my ‘choose your own adventure’ philosophical resource!
endsdontjustifythemeans.com/…
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Mobster: What are you, some kinda wise guy?
Socrates: Why... yes, kind of.
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i really enjoyed talking with @IsThisMyMoney about aesthetics, music as applied math, bach, and much more..
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people who are into the idea of ai consciousness sometimes offer very odd answers to the question ‘what is the conscious thing?’. i mean, they offer answers like ‘the conversations you have with GPT!’ or ‘instances of the different personas of Claude!’ or ‘electrical events in wires at data centers!’. increasingly, i think what’s going on here is simply that these people think, from their interactions with LLMs, that they have extremely good evidence of the existence of things like thoughts and preferences and emotions, so they are desperately seeking the bearers of these things. after all, if thoughts need thinkers, then there must be a thinker out there! so perhaps it’s the conversation? maybe not.. ok, then the persona thing? maybe not.. oh or the electrical events? it’s gotta be something! anything! ofc one reason all this is quite confusing is that it’s the other way round from the very standard practice of wondering whether pigs and dogs have thoughts etc! More on this in my latest piece...
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AMC oversold my showing of You Can See Everything yesterday and they had to stop the movie 10 minutes in and turn on the lights to sort the chaos and for a second I thought it was part of the experience
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Wild that there has been more discussion of the impact of superhuman math AI on mathematicians than on the world
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are the ai people on a wild goose chase for 'the conscious thing'?
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v cool space jam interview with the ever excellent casey dreier!
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yet more from me on ai consciousness..! endsdontjustifythemeans.com/…
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Biggest changes in Canadian English
Cool: “A new survey of Canadian English: Fifty years of language change” by Charles Boberg, Claire Henderson and Jackson Mundie (June ’26) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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my thoughts on the interrelation of free will and liberalism, with some thanks to john locke..
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check out this new series of essays by @henryeoliver, @olivertraldi, @gstrawson, and me, on locke's essay! our responses to each other's essays are coming soon..
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What can we know, how do we come to know it, and what does that mean for a free society?
John Locke explored these questions centuries ago, and they remain relevant today.
Henry Oliver, @RMLLowe, and @olivertraldi revisit his philosophy at Liberty Fund: bit.ly/4B6Xpdi
ALT A portrait painting depicting John Locke, a well-known philosopher.
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A portrait of Erich Honecker hangs above a Robotron computer in a former nuclear bunker near Suhl.
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my thoughts on the interrelation of free will and liberalism, with some thanks to john locke..
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