I argue that AI alignment should focus on the possibility that we build AGI without learning anything fundamentally new about intelligence.

Free speech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass-membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members.

There's nothing better for character development than spending 10,000 years trapped in a time loop

The managerialist elite no longer look like the solution to our woes, but the cause of many of them

Much has been said about Fortnite’s revenue, users, business model, origin and availability. But these narratives are overhyped. What matters most is instead how these achievements will enable Epic Games and Fortnite to create something truly revolutionary.

Quantum woo?

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A repository of philosophical musings and personal projects

Greg Gauthier

HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest music and philosophy festival, returns to Hampstead Heath on October 1st & 2nd. Regarded as one of the best things to do in London in October, book your tickets now.br /

Interactive philosophy tests and activities designed to tell you what you don't want to know about yourself.

Ioannidis 2015 paper - Science has always relied on reproducibility to build confidence in experimental results. Now, the most comprehensive investigation ever done about the rate and predictors of reproducibility in social and cognitive sciences has found that regardless of ...

Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and of the reaction to her book about this, Eichmann in Jerusalem, led her to think deeply about politics, truth, and plurality. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samantha...

Nigel Warburton interview well known philosophers on important topics.

RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself. Caltech’s 1974 commencement address.

See also "Aeon".

Nick Bostrom

The future of humanity. Existential risk, the ethics of AI, transhumanism, and wise philanthropy.

Ioannides 2005

Repugnant conclusion. Utilitarianism.

Love

Seeking affirmation.

Cowardice