Sitemap - 2023 - The Splintered Mind

Normativism about Swimming Holes, Anger, and Beliefs

The Washout Argument Against Longtermism

Could the Universe Be Infinite?

Falling in Love with Machines

How We Will Decide that Large Language Models Have Beliefs

Large Language Models are Interestingly Bad with the Periodic Table

Quasi-Sociality: Toward Asymmetric Joint Actions with Artificial Systems

Against the Finger

The Prospects and Challenges of Measuring Morality, or: On the Possibility or Impossibility of a "Moralometer"

Percent of U.S. Philosophy PhD Recipients Who Are Women: A 50-Year Perspective

Utilitarianism and Risk Amplification

Gunkel's Criticism of the No-Relevant-Difference Argument for Robot Rights

Strange Intelligence, Strange Philosophy

Skeletal vs Fleshed-Out Philosophy

Elisabeth of Bohemia 1, Descartes 0

Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle

Walking the Walk: Frankness and Social Proof

One Reason to Walk the Walk: To Give Specific Content to Your Assertions

Does It Matter If Ethicists Walk the Walk?

Beliefs Don't Need to Be Causes (if Dispositions Aren't)

AI Systems Must Not Confuse Users about Their Sentience or Moral Status

Philosophical Progress by Opening Up New Epistemic Possibilities

Philosophical Progress by Opening Up New Epistemic Possibilities

The Envy Argument Against the View That Teletransportation Is Death

University of California Has Endorsed the "Principles for Online Majors and Programs" That I Co-Authored

The Summer Illusion

Mostly Overlapping Minds: A Challenge for the View that Minds Are Necessarily Discrete

Dishonesty among Honesty Researchers

Flipping Pascal's Wager on Its Head

New Paper in Draft: Introspection in Group Minds, Disunities of Consciousness, and Indiscrete Persons

The Fundamental Argument for Dispositionalism about Belief

A Reason to Be More Skeptical of Robot Consciousness Than Alien Consciousness

We Shouldn't "Box" Superintelligent AIs

Pierre Menard, Author of My ChatGPT Plagiarized Essay

Philosophy and Beauty and Beautiful Philosophy

Optimism, Repetition, and Hopes for the Size of the Cosmos

New Voices in Philosophy

"There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist, Sitting in One

Power Clashing and the Structure of Practices

The Black Hole Objection to Longtermism and Consequentialism

Sexiness and Love Island

Wearing Band T-Shirts of Bands You Don’t Know

Wearing Band T-Shirts of Bands You Don’t Know

The Emotional Alignment Design Policy

Presentations, May 29 - April 6

Don't Create AI Systems of Disputable Moral Status (Redux)

New Paper in Draft: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation

Don't Create AI Systems of Disputable Moral Status (op-ed version)

God Stumbles Over the Power Cord

Moral Mediocrity, Apologizing for Vegetarianism, and Do-Gooder Derogation

U.S. Philosophy PhDs Are Still Overwhelmingly Non-Hispanic White (Though a Bit Less So Than 10 Years Ago)

How Not to Calculate Utilities in an Infinite Universe

Larva Pupa Imago

Hedonic Offsetting for Harms to Artificial Intelligence?

New Paper in Draft: Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo! Plus, the Problem of Causal Specification

Further Methodological Troubles for the Moralometer

The Design Policy of the Excluded Middle

Writings of 2022