Can AI make scientific discoveries on its own?
AI is not embodied, does that mean it can't make breakthroughs in science? Let's turn to some old friends for help.
Sensible Philosophy
Writing about politics and technology using the tools of social epistemology and logic. Philosophy student and Seattle Mariners superfan.
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The Limits of Self-Knowledge
What can a sensible treatment of Gödel can teach us about self-knowledge?
Why Smart People Make Weak Arguments About AI
Tech CEOs aren’t the only ones captive to motivated reasoning
Rationalizations and First-Order Disagreement
Rationalizations exist within a socially-constructed marketplace. How do they explain first order disagreement?
A Guide to Cognitive Enhancement vs. Cognitive Erosion in AI Use
From Homer's Bards to ChatGPT, here is humanity's next technology-driven cognitive bargain.
Your Life is Mostly Admin
Why most of our time goes to things we don't care about, and how we can stop that trend in our lives.
Stop Calling it the "Male Loneliness Epidemic"
It's about time we stop gendering the loneliness problem, and start worrying about what matters.
AI and the Humanities' Motivated Reasoning Problem
AI policy debates have shown that left wing humanities scholars and their pupils are captured by elitist aesthetic preference and motivated reasoning.
Why AI can't make us morally better
No matter how good AI reasoning becomes, it can't make us less morally cooked.
There Is No 'Self'
Some spend their entire lives trying to find their 'self', but this is an impossible task. There is no 'self' that passes logical and epistemological rigor.