The Philosophy Addict
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Multiple AI systems do not increase safety. Having 3 cowboys with guns aimed at each other does not make the cowboys safer. The first to shoot will win.
May 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New blog post where I argue against the cosmological and contingency argument for the existence of God

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The Cosmological Argument and the Contingency Argument
Originally written for a university course about arguments for and against the existence of God. Hopefully you find it interesting! Cosmological ArgumentDownload
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May 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
November 10, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now

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December 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Since it seems that Bluesky is a bit more left-wing I will advertise one of my more political blogposts. Most of my more recent articles are very theoretical in comparison.
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Direct-Democratic digital economic planning
Are we really as democratic as claimed? A few financial families control the maj§ority of the stock market, and therefore control companies as they have the most votes during their annual meetings.…
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December 2, 2024 at 11:59 PM