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How Anthropic uses NYU and a philosophically gullible media ecosystem to legitimize their dystopian, cyborg ideas about AI "welfare"
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Philosophy, cosmology, consciousness, artificial intelligence, spirituality, and the occasional high weirdness
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The Future of AI Is Quasi-Local, Domain-Specific, and Sovereign
Why Bhutan is asking the right questions about technology innovation
Why the '60s Counterculture Couldn’t Save Us from the Machine
From the Hippie Communes to OpenAI: How the California Ideology Hijacked the Future
I Hope This Doesn't Hurt Claude's Feelings
Why Anthropic and other AI labs ignore the neuroscience of emotion and remain stuck in the behaviorism and cybernetics of a century ago
How Artificial Intelligence Is Eating Our Worldview
The "hard problem of consciousness" and the exciting philosophical opportunity presented by artificial intelligence's assumptions about consciousness
From Epstein to Elon: The Mechanistic Malignancy at the Heart of Modernity
What to do about the hyperrational, cannibalistic worldview that permeates technology innovation, finance, and politics
The Better AI Gets, the Further We Seem from AGI
An honest survey of the AI field and an appreciation for the mystery of human intelligence
AI Empires and the Soul Sickness of Silicon Valley
Creating AI for the people by moving from empire technologies to humane technology innovation and conscious stewardship
AI, Magical Thinking and the Machine Metaphor
My conversation about the urgent relevance of philosophy with philosopher Matt Segall
Why Do Tech Bros Have the Worst Ideas?
Apollonian Intelligence, Transhumanism, Techno-Christianity, and the Dark Enlightenment: OH MY!