Two bits of housekeeping
I haven’t forgotten about the essay contest, I’m a little delayed by odd circumstances.
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Formerly de Pony Sum. A blog for philosophy, politics, political economy, psychology & more.
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Lie detection and language models
It is possible, under some circumstances, to use contemporary large language models to detect how a subject feels about someone, even if they’re trying to hide it.
Milgram and the moral ideology
Morality is good (1) but the moral ideology is terrible.
Punishment abolitionism
Many people see me as their reasonable far leftist friend.
For human dignity
Warning, harrowing
Project Hyperion Part I
His future doom which is but to awake.
Stop waxing philosophical
Waxing philosophical and its features
Eighteen oft forgotten pleas from world religions
Looking at moral traditions with at least vague universalist features, there are many surprisingly strong moral claims that are held in near consensus.
Mental illness and LLM-As-Snitch
Note to anyone in the situation I describe.
The resurrection of the dead: a brief feasibility study
• What is the “Common Task?”
A nearly inevitable wound: on low self esteem
I have an unusual relationship with low self-esteem.