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A philosopher of mind digging into and exposing mainstream AI-mind claims.

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A Philosophical Autopsy of Anthropic's Latest Paper and Recommendations For How to Read It

This is the first post in a series I’m trying out, preliminarily called an ‘autopsy’ of AI lab research papers and other documents related to all things minds in the AI space

Resisting Zuckerberg's Superintelligent World

and what true empowerment looks like in an AI saturated world

AI-Use And Its Effects on Human Flourishing

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Your Brain Is Not An Autocomplete System: idea atrophy and creativity in the Age of AI

I’ve spent almost a decade now thinking about the nature of human thought.

July 26' Monthly Roundup

Welcome to the July 26’ roundup!

Analytic Philosophy Has a Monopoly on the AI Consciousness Debate. That's A Problem

What recent responses to Ted Chiang's Atlantic article teach us about the AI-consciousness space

What AI Labs Won't Tell You About Machine Consciousness

Every argument for machine consciousness assumes functionalism. Nobody's saying so. Here's why that matters.

Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 2)

The paper's findings are real. The claim that they say anything about minds rests on a philosophical framework the paper itself admits doesn't hold

How Can Someone like Dawkins End Up Believing His AI Was Conscious?

The framework that licenses AI minds has been around for decades. LLMs just made the framework obvious

Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 1)

Why It's Findings Have Nothing to Do with Global Workspace Theory