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Jun 11
Today's post: Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse
We're in the equivalent of the 1980s Usenet era for online conferencing. Let's not give up yet!
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[a post in memory of Helen De Cruz]
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Just out in print: Superficialism about Belief and How We Will Decide That Robots "Believe": studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl…
ALT Title page of Schwitzgebel: Superficialism about Belief and How We Will Decide That Robots "Believe"
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Full special issue on Krzysztof Posłajko's minimal non-realism about belief: studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl…
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Herbie: A Near-Future Debatably Conscious AI Person
An autonomous vehicle, imagined with various feasible features that liberals about AI consciousness see as suggesting consciousness, plus rich goals and the capacity to communicate linguistically.
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ALT Herbie the Love Bug
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May 26
New paper in draft with @JPober: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness
Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of mind. 1/n
ALT Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness Jeremy Pober Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (corresponding author: Jeremy.pober@gmail.com) Eric Schwitzgebel Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside
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May 26
conscious organisms employ substrates different from our own, we should allow that conscious is "substrate flexible": It does not depend on having our particular substrate. Whether we can generalize from such biological substrate flexibility to the possibility of 5/N
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May 26
consciousness in as different a substrate as computer chips... well, that's a complicated and uncertain issue, on which Jeremy and I diverge in the penultimate section of the paper.
Full draft here:
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May 21
AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by Grace Helton)
Part Two of a two-part series
by Grace Helton (guest blogger)
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ALT Jean Miro, The Garden, 1925
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May 13
ChatGPT Is Not Your Friend: guest post by Grace Helton, at The Splintered Mind
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Superhuman Moral Standing (for possible future entities)
a blog post suggesting three possible routes:
* having much more of what matters
* having something that matters far beyond our comprehension
* not being individuatable into discrete entities like us
[link in comments]
ALT Xul Solar, San Danza
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Apr 28
You think you know what belief is? No! At best you have an accidentally true opinion, unless you've read @jontweetshere's and my edited collection, The Nature of Belief, hot off the press at OUP. (Also available open access at OUP's website.)
ALT Book cover: The Nature of Belief, edited by Jonathan Lewis-Jong and Eric Schwitzgebel
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Apr 23
Could "do your thing" -- harmoniously with the world and reflecting your specific predilections and talents -- serve as a general (Daoist-inspired) ethical motto?
In this blog post, I argue yes, but not in a totalizing way.
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ALT your fruity bard, image from: https://www.deviantart.com/xloboblanco/art/Human-Bard-DnD-Design-866355980
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Apr 16
Some thoughts on Kim Stanley Robinson's remarks about the value of science fiction:
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