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/website - /tweets - /resources socials: are.na: https://www.are.na/aaron-pham/channels curius: /curius home: / print: https://print.are.na/ tags: - evergreen - llm - design - love - friend - r/pedagogy - alignment - philosophy - P-Complete - interpretability - math/linalg title: '#philosophy' created: '2024-10-24' published: '2024-10-24' pageLayout: default slug: arena/philosophy permalink: https://aarnphm.xyz/arena/philosophy.md generator: quartz: v4.6.0 hostedProvider: Cloudflare baseUrl: aarnphm.xyz full: https://aarnphm.xyz/llms-full.txt --- # #philosophy - — Alignment & Succession: Toward a Future Sculpted by Human Wills - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["ai alignment","human agency"] - later: true - — The Renaissance: Conclusion - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["aesthetics","walter pater"] - later: true - — Prophecies - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","quotations","futures"] - later: true - — Against neutrality about creating happy lives - Joe Carlsmith - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Eating Meat and Eating People - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — From Philosophy to Math to Engineering - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 5-7 - New International Version - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","religion"] - later: true - — Possibilities for Low-Fidelity Mind Uploading - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Religion for the Nonreligious - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Second Treatise of Government - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","john locke"] - later: true - — The despair of normative realism bot - Joe Carlsmith - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Elements of Morals - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Pascal’s Pensees - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Trust vs Trust - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — You Are Not a Function - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [lesswrong/the-space-of-systems-and-the-space-of-maps![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b9sGz74ayftqPBDYv/the-space-of-systems-and-the-space-of-maps) — The space of systems and the space of maps - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [https://www.lesswrong.com/w/coherent-extrapolated-volition![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/w/coherent-extrapolated-volition) — Coherent Extrapolated Volition - \[meta]: - date: 09/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Peak Experiences - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","experience"] - later: true - — Mortal Limits, Humans Minds - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["aristotle","ai"] - later: true - — Unblocking Metta - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["buddhism","altruism"] - later: true - — Reflections on the Right Use of Studies - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["simone weil","education"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Non-identity\_problem![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-identity_problem) — Non-identity problem - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["ethics","identity"] - later: true - — Maharshi links an X article - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["x article","notes"] - later: true - — tsotchke on semiotics and simulacra - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["semiotics","simulacra"] - later: true - [youtube/v=awDAvbxS1vk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awDAvbxS1vk) — I Changed My Mind. - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","belief revision"] - later: true - [lesswrong/big-world-intuitions![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/s22XzjQsrh6JXhXGH/big-world-intuitions) — Big-World Intuitions - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["intuition","rationality"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Hylozoism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylozoism) — Hylozoism - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["metaphysics","life"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Mereological\_nihilism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereological_nihilism) — Mereological nihilism - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["metaphysics","mereology"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Pygmalion\_effect![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect) — Pygmalion effect - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["psychology","expectations"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Medium\_theory![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_theory) — Medium theory - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["media","theory"] - later: true - — Why Did Nietzsche Dislike Kant and His Epistemology So Much? - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Semiotics![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics) — Semiotics - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Elizabeth Anscombe: Her Most Influential Ideas | TheCollector - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Gilles Deleuze: The Philosophy of Creation | TheCollector - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Apollonian\_and\_Dionysian![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian) — Apollonian and Dionysian - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — But in the End, Why Is Deleuze “Anti-Hegelian”? At the Root of the Hegel-Deleuze Affair - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Deleuze and Hegelian Difference (Chapter 4) - Deleuze and Derrida - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Robert\_Brandom![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brandom) — Robert Brandom - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/A\_Short\_History\_of\_Ethics![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Ethics) — A Short History of Ethics - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — C. Thi Nguyen - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Harcourt Foucault Nietzsche SSRN id3393827 - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [sep/rationalism-empiricism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/) — Rationalism vs. Empiricism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Ludwig\_Wittgenstein![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein) — Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Charles\_W.\_Mills![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Mills) — Charles W. Mills - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Mill, John Stuart: Ethics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Deleuze\&Guattari - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Michel Foucault, Info - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Foucault, Lecture 19, 15 April 1986 - Gilles Deleuze | The Deleuze Seminars - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [sep/principia-mathematica![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/principia-mathematica/) — Principia Mathematica (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Causal\_decision\_theory![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_decision_theory) — Causal decision theory - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Peter\_Singer![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer) — Peter Singer - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/List\_of\_fallacies![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies) — List of fallacies - Wikipedia - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["philosophy"] - later: true - — Liminal Thinking - \[meta]: - date: 08/20/2026 - tags: \["change","thinking"] - later: true - — There are no sane policy solutions to population collapse - \[meta]: - date: 08/20/2026 - tags: \["population","policy"] - later: true - — Epistemic calibration and searching the space of truth - \[meta]: - date: 07/31/2026 - tags: \["epistemology","calibration"] - later: true - [youtube/v=P8KI3CzWLi0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8KI3CzWLi0) — Amia Srinivasan is the modern philosopher - \[meta]: - date: 08/07/2026 - tags: \["amia srinivasan","political philosophy"] - later: true - — Nicomachean Ethics - \[meta]: - date: 07/31/2026 - tags: \["aristotle","ethics"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Lusotropicalism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusotropicalism) — Lusotropicalism - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["colonialism","sociology"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Motte-and-bailey\_fallacy![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy) — Motte-and-bailey fallacy - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["fallacies","argumentation"] - later: true - [youtube/v=CDbXzVwdyo8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDbXzVwdyo8) — On Betraying Your Own Potential - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["sartre","potential"] - later: true - [youtube/v=UwUrX\_VOBcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwUrX_VOBcQ) — The Later Wittgenstein - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["wittgenstein","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=PmckTveYNI8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmckTveYNI8) — Wittgenstein’s Games by A. C. Grayling - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["wittgenstein","language games"] - later: true - [youtube/v=a\_hifamdISs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hifamdISs) — Gilles Deleuze on Cinema: What is the Creative Act - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["deleuze","creativity"] - later: true - [youtube/v=tCUQhHDUUdI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCUQhHDUUdI) — Gilles Deleuze From A to Z - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["deleuze","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=vqBl50TREHU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBl50TREHU) — The Repugnant Conclusion - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["population ethics","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=\_STD1D0REkc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STD1D0REkc) — A Philosophy Student’s Analysis of The Stranger by Camus - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["camus","literature"] - later: true - [youtube/v=jdqjE1lrxQ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdqjE1lrxQ4) — Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["pascal","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=ckjl5mK8JEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjl5mK8JEA) — Debating why people feel a need for meaning in life - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["meaning","life"] - later: true - [youtube/v=egWy\_Z9nCMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egWy_Z9nCMo) — My Problem With C.S. Lewis - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["c.s. lewis","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=V6pgZKVcKpw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pgZKVcKpw) — You Actually Do Need to Understand Mythos - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["mythos","culture"] - later: true - [youtube/v=tBHa2bnKRoA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHa2bnKRoA) — If Life Has No Meaning… Then What? - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["meaning","nietzsche"] - later: true - [youtube/v=mbs8JGA\_Y-M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs8JGA_Y-M) — Why God Allows Suffering - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["theodicy","religion"] - later: true - [youtube/v=-d7oR0J9usQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7oR0J9usQ) — Slavoj Žižek and Alex O’Connor Live in London - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["zizek","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=4YcbhLgftJA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcbhLgftJA) — Hubert Dreyfus on Dostoyevsky and the sacred - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["dreyfus","dostoyevsky"] - later: true - [youtube/v=nD248K11zNE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD248K11zNE) — Ethics of Principle vs Sensitivity - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["rorty","ethics"] - later: true - [youtube/v=5rizWDrvOxE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rizWDrvOxE) — An argument against objective morality that defeats itself - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["morality","argument"] - later: true - [youtube/v=dJ9JlB7nvAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ9JlB7nvAI) — The Nature and Aims of Science - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of-science","nagel"] - later: true - [youtube/v=8RSquhILju0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSquhILju0) — Hubert Dreyfus on Decision-Making - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["dreyfus","decision making"] - later: true - [youtube/v=fn2F2BWLZ0Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn2F2BWLZ0Q) — Richard Rorty: Is Religion Compatible with Science? - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["rorty","religion"] - later: true - [youtube/v=z2UHLMVr4vg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UHLMVr4vg) — David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","creativity"] - later: true - [youtube/v=hUTGAR0fBow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUTGAR0fBow) — A Brief History of Atheism - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["atheism","religion"] - later: true - [youtube/v=YX34ikiBRxw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX34ikiBRxw) — Nelson Goodman on Simplicity and Truth in Science - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["goodman","philosophy-of-science"] - later: true - [youtube/v=VddLlnOZIfY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VddLlnOZIfY) — John Searle: Perception and Intentionality - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["searle","intentionality"] - later: true - [youtube/v=d\_\_In2PQS60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__In2PQS60) — Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Robert Paul Wolff Lecture 1 - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["kant","critique of pure reason"] - later: true - [youtube/v=JttzWtYqy-M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttzWtYqy-M) — Marcuse, One Dimensional Man - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["marcuse","critical theory"] - later: true - — Nick Cammarata on inaccessible feelings and stomach issues - \[meta]: - date: 06/02/2026 - tags: \["feelings","somatics"] - later: true - — Fernando on the hard problem - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","hard problem"] - later: true - — sigh swoon on embodiment and digestion - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["embodiment","digestion"] - later: true - — On Vulgar Materialism - \[meta]: - date: 06/30/2026 - tags: \["materialism","cynicism"] - later: true - — Fernando on P implies Q - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["logic","implication"] - later: true - — You are not too “irrational” to know your preferences - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["preferences","rationality"] - later: true - [lesswrong/trees-are-mostly-made-of-air-and-a-generalizable-lesson-for![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xiTBpBDwubnr4MLRe/trees-are-mostly-made-of-air-and-a-generalizable-lesson-for) — Trees are mostly made of air - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["ai safety","abstraction"] - later: true - — Veganism and Moral Intuitions - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["ethics","moral intuitions"] - later: true - — Joe Carlsmith on AI consciousness and ethics - \[meta]: - date: 05/25/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","ai ethics"] - later: true - — Aristotle on immortalizing ourselves - \[meta]: - date: 06/03/2026 - tags: \["aristotle","life"] - later: true - — Bicameral Labs and consciousness progress - \[meta]: - date: 01/15/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","science"] - later: true - — morality as self-justification - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["morality","modernity"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Frank\_J.\_Tipler![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler) — Frank J. Tipler - \[meta]: - date: 06/22/2026 - tags: \["cosmology","theology"] - later: true - [The Bootstrapping Problem.pdf](/thoughts/pdfs/The-Bootstrapping-Problem.pdf) — The Bootstrapping Problem - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["morals"] - — Bootstrapping morality - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["morality","selfhood"] - later: true - — Being John Rawls - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["rawls","political philosophy"] - later: true - — What if the Quran is Written into the Big Bang? - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["theology","cosmology"] - later: true - — The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["categories","identity"] - later: true - — Building AIs that do human-like philosophy - \[meta]: - date: 06/17/2026 - tags: \["ai","philosophy"] - later: true - — 3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["neuroscience","philosophy-of mind"] - later: true - — Why I am not a Modern Stoic - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["stoicism","ethics"] - later: true - — Just and loving seeing - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["iris murdoch","attention"] - later: true - — Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["family","creativity"] - later: true - [sep/functionalism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/) — Functionalism - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of mind","functionalism"] - later: true - [sep/arendt![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/) — Hannah Arendt - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["political philosophy","arendt"] - later: true - [sep/lewis-ci![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lewis-ci/) — Clarence Irving Lewis - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["pragmatism","epistemology"] - later: true - [sep/quine![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/) — Willard Van Orman Quine - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["quine","analytic philosophy"] - later: true - [sep/dualism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/) — Dualism - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of mind","metaphysics"] - later: true - [sep/hartshorne![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/) — Charles Hartshorne - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["theology","metaphysics"] - later: true - [sep/mental-causation![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-causation/) — Mental Causation - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of mind","causation"] - later: true - [https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=dualism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=dualism) — SEP search: dualism - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["dualism","philosophy-of mind"] - later: true - [sep/physicalism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/) — Physicalism - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of mind","physicalism"] - later: true - [sep/leibniz-mind![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/) — Leibniz’s Philosophy of Mind - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["leibniz","philosophy-of mind"] - later: true - [sep/emily-elizabeth-constance-jones![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emily-elizabeth-constance-jones/) — Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["logic","history-of philosophy"] - later: true - [sep/repugnant-conclusion![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2007/entries/repugnant-conclusion) — The Repugnant Conclusion - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["population ethics","value"] - later: true - [sep/rights-children![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-children) — Children’s Rights - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["rights","ethics"] - later: true - [sep/popper![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/) — Karl Popper - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of science","popper"] - later: true - [sep/thomas-kuhn![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/) — Thomas Kuhn - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of science","kuhn"] - later: true - [sep/content-externalism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/) — Externalism About the Mind - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["philosophy-of mind","externalism"] - later: true - [sep/fine-tuning![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/) — Fine-Tuning - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["cosmology","philosophy-of religion"] - later: true - [sep/aristotle-logic![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/) — Aristotle’s Logic - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["aristotle","logic"] - later: true - [sep/aristotle-ethics![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/) — Aristotle’s Ethics - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["aristotle","ethics"] - later: true - [sep/epistemology-bayesian![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/) — Bayesian Epistemology - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["bayesianism","epistemology"] - later: true - [sep/analytic-synthetic![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic) — The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["analytic philosophy","language"] - later: true - [sep/cellular-automata![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cellular-automata/) — Cellular Automata - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["computation","complexity"] - later: true - [sep/axiom-choice![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/axiom-choice/) — The Axiom of Choice - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["set theory","logic"] - later: true - [sep/domination![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/domination/) — Domination - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["political philosophy","power"] - later: true - [sep/consciousness![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/) — Consciousness - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","philosophy-of mind"] - later: true - [sep/zombies![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/) — Zombies - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","philosophy-of mind"] - later: true - [sep/omnipotence![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/omnipotence/) — Omnipotence - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["theology","metaphysics"] - later: true - [sep/hermeneutics![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics) — Hermeneutics - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["hermeneutics","interpretation"] - later: true - [sep/hegel-dialectics![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics) — Hegel’s Dialectics - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["hegel","dialectics"] - later: true - [sep/deleuze![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/) — Gilles Deleuze - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["deleuze","continental"] - later: true - [sep/mereology![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/) — Mereology - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["mereology","metaphysics"] - later: true - [sep/panpsychism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism) — Panpsychism - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","metaphysics"] - later: true - [sep/rorty![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/) — Richard Rorty - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["pragmatism","philosophy"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Post\_hoc\_ergo\_propter\_hoc![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc) — Post hoc ergo propter hoc - \[meta]: - date: 06/11/2026 - tags: \["fallacy","causality"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/ELIZA\_effect![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect) — ELIZA effect - \[meta]: - date: 06/11/2026 - tags: \["anthropomorphism","ai"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Solomonoff's\_theory\_of\_inductive\_inference![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference) — Solomonoff’s theory of inductive inference - \[meta]: - date: 06/11/2026 - tags: \["induction","solomonoff"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Defence\_mechanism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism) — Defence mechanism - \[meta]: - date: 06/11/2026 - tags: \["psychology","psychoanalysis"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Simulacra\_and\_Simulation![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation) — Simulacra and Simulation - \[meta]: - date: 06/11/2026 - tags: \["baudrillard","semiotics"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Neural\_correlates\_of\_consciousness![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_consciousness) — Neural correlates of consciousness - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","neuroscience"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Philosophy\_of\_mind![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind) — Philosophy of mind - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["mind","metaphysics"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Différance![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3%A9rance) — Différance - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["derrida","semiotics"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Mimetic\_theory![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory) — Mimetic theory - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["desire","girard"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Temporal\_finitism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_finitism) — Temporal finitism - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["time","metaphysics"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Iron\_cage![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_cage) — Iron cage - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["weber","rationalization"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Dual\_strategies\_theory![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_strategies_theory) — Dual strategies theory - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["evolution","psychology"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Newcomb's\_problem![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_problem) — Newcomb’s problem - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["decision theory","rationality"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Intellectual\_responsibility![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_responsibility) — Intellectual responsibility - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["ethics","epistemology"] - later: true - [lesswrong/machines-of-faithful-obedience![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faAX5Buxc7cdjkXQG/machines-of-faithful-obedience) — Machines of Faithful Obedience - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["ai","humanism"] - later: true - [lesswrong/how-i-stopped-being-sure-llms-are-just-making-up-their![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hopeRDfyAgQc4Ez2g/how-i-stopped-being-sure-llms-are-just-making-up-their) — How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing) - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","models"] - later: true - [https://www.lesswrong.com/w/universal-prior![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/w/universal-prior) — Universal prior - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["bayesian","solomonoff"] - later: true - [lesswrong/teleosemantics![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WGEPBmErv8ufrq8Fc/teleosemantics) — Teleosemantics! - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["semantics","philosophy"] - later: true - [lesswrong/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post) — The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["simulacra","models"] - later: true - [lesswrong/empowerment-corrigibility-etc-are-simple-abstractions-of-a![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vzHtHHBJoKATi5SeK/empowerment-corrigibility-etc-are-simple-abstractions-of-a) — Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology) - \[meta]: - date: 06/09/2026 - tags: \["corrigibility","ontology"] - later: true - [https://www.lesswrong.com/w/instrumental-convergence![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/w/instrumental-convergence) — Instrumental convergence - \[meta]: - date: 06/08/2026 - tags: \["ai safety","rationality"] - later: true - [wikipedia/en/Tall\_poppy\_syndrome![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome) — Tall poppy syndrome - \[meta]: - date: 06/05/2026 - tags: \["life"] - notable public success or achievements that are ostracised by others as a form of egalitarianism - — Cognitive Mapping, Fredric Jameson - \[meta]: - date: 05/25/2026 - tags: \["epistemology"] - — Full-Stack Alignment: Co‑Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value - \[meta]: - date: 05/12/2026 - tags: \["ai","wellfare"] - [sep/compatibilism![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/) — Compatibilism - \[meta]: - date: 04/27/2026 - tags: \["will"] - [wikipedia/en/Knowledge\_argument![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument) — Knowledge argument - \[meta]: - date: 04/27/2026 - tags: \["qualia"] - - [youtube/v=4OXtO92x5KA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXtO92x5KA) — My Grandfather Met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell Interview 1952 - \[meta]: - date: 01/20/2026 - tags: \["history","biography"] - [youtube/v=U-ZQoMh32Ck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-ZQoMh32Ck\&t=9932s) — Hubert Dreyfus - Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/20/2026 - tags: \["perception","being"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - [sep/disagreement![SEP](/static/favicons/sep-man-red.png)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement/) — Disagreement - \[meta]: - date: 01/15/2026 - tags: \["metaphysics","ethics"] - [youtube/v=HvCEf7n9-Ps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvCEf7n9-Ps) — Why we make art? - \[meta]: - date: 01/13/2026 - tags: \["culture"] - — Scientific virtues \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/12/2026 - tags: \["progress","ethics","being"] - later: true - highlighted: true - — Machines of Loving Grace \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/11/2026 - tags: \["meliorism","superintelligence"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=9ztLmWvlS1c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ztLmWvlS1c) — The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy, Bernard Williams & Bryan Magee (1977) - \[meta]: - date: 01/09/2026 - tags: \["linguistic"] - [youtube/v=ayh-ehvFVfU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayh-ehvFVfU) — Irwin Weil on Dostoevsky - \[meta]: - date: 01/06/2026 - tags: \["pathology","absurdism"] - — Rationality is not Systematized Winning - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["rationalist"] - — What we owe (to) the present: normative and practical challenges for strong longtermism - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["longtermism","theory"] - — On green \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["longtermism","otherness","agi"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - — Recursive Self Improvement \[—] - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["alignment","longtermism"] - i.e AI go FOOM - — What awaits us? - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["longtermism","metaphysics"] - from Toni Morrison to Nick Bostrom, on superintelligence - [lesswrong/what-makes-claude-3-opus-misaligned![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bLFmE8NtqxrtEaipN/what-makes-claude-3-opus-misaligned) — What makes Claude 3 Opus misaligned \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["alignment","modelspec"] - highlighted: true - — Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["alignment"] - — Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 01/02/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","agency"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - [https://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/the-paradox-of-choice/](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/the-paradox-of-choice/) — The paradox of choice - \[meta]: - date: 12/29/2025 - tags: \["choice","abundance"] - [youtube/v=rHKwIYsPXLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg) — Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google - \[meta]: - date: 12/23/2025 - tags: \["functionalism"] - [functionalism](/thoughts/functionalism) - [youtube/v=29AgSo6KOtI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29AgSo6KOtI) — Why Now? A Quest in Metaphysics - \[meta]: - date: 12/23/2025 - tags: \["metaphysics"] - i.e: [singularity hypothesis](/thoughts/singularity-hypothesis) - [youtube/v=utXoYDrl3KY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXoYDrl3KY) — How to Want To Live Again - \[meta]: - date: 12/21/2025 - tags: \["psychology"] - autonomy - sense of **freewill** (individual experience their behaviours as an expression of self) - competence - ongoing interaction with one’s environment (seek challenges, maintain and enhance skills) - relatedness - feeling connected to others, caring for and being cared for (sense of belonging) - — Ordained and Absolute Power in Scotus’ Ordinatio I 44, Henri Veldhuis - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["theology"] - — From Particularism to Mass Murder: Nazi Morality, Antisemitism, and Cognitive Dissonance - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["fascist","morality"] - later: true - — Learning from the fact that you exist - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["perception","theology"] - [The+normativity+of+meaning+without+the+normativity.pdf](/thoughts/papers/The+normativity+of+meaning+without+the+normativity.pdf) — The normativity of meaning with the normativity - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["being","semantic normativity"] - later: true - [youtube/v=g3f-Lfm8KNg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f-Lfm8KNg) — A. J. Ayer’s Emotivist Theory of [Moral](/thoughts/moral) language - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["moral","ethics"] - later: true - [lesswrong/the-moral-copernican-principle![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KdgD8wD8TYT2kbESj/the-moral-copernican-principle) — The Moral Copernican Principle - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["ethics"] - later: true - [lesswrong/ksatPnddyZjHwZWwG![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/YshDJ9ECCgkwoNsBc/p/ksatPnddyZjHwZWwG) — Mnestics - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["amnesia","memory"] - from [There is No Antimemetics Division](/library/There-is-No-Antimemetics-Division) our heroes must fight a great evil, monsters that make you forget they exist. In the course of such adventures, they find it necessary to imbibe “mnestics” (opposite of amnesiac), drugs for remembering - _Take. your. mnestic_ - > [Transclude of quotes #^mnestics](/quotes#mnestics) - [youtube/v=V-4R0uuyUm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-4R0uuyUm4) — Derrida and Montaigne on Mourning the Friend - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["continential","ontology","friend"] - [youtube/v=kH785oawwkk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH785oawwkk) — Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science (1977) - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["naturalism","ontology"] - [youtube/v=fSBh-iuPHjQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSBh-iuPHjQ) — How boring activities can make you feel alive again - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["boredom","philosophy"] - [youtube/v=oCVtU3uW2jI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVtU3uW2jI) — W. V. Quine on Necessary Truth (1963) - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["truth","rationalism","naturalism"] - [youtube/v=R9UZyaX0EAo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UZyaX0EAo) — Creativity in Science, Ernest Nagel (1968) - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["naturalism"] - later: true - [youtube/v=bP9znCxhHcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP9znCxhHcQ) — What has Become of [philosophy](/tags/philosophy), A. J. Ayler - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["ontology","epistemology"] - [youtube/v=grp0RDCwQP4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grp0RDCwQP4) — The Experience Machine - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["love","hedonism"] - — Attention is your scarcest resource - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["productivity","intention"] - — To listen well, get curious \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["learning"] - highlighted: true - Recently, I realized why people keep giving this weird-seeming advice. Good listeners do often reflect words back—but not because they read it in a book somewhere. Rather, it’s cargo cult advice: it teaches you to imitate the surface appearance of good listening, but misses what’s actually important, the thing that’s generating that surface appearance. - The generator is curiosity. - When done this way, reflective listening feels validating rather than alienating. It’s a way of demonstrating that I care a lot about what someone has to say. - — Berkson’s Paradox - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["statistics"] - — Bounded Distrust \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/13/2025 - tags: \["philosophy","truth"] - later: true - highlighted: true - Zvi’s response: - How to Bounded distrust: - — Ramsey’s [Representation](/thoughts/representations) Theorem - \[meta]: - date: 12/13/2025 - tags: \["representation","metaphysics"] - — Reflection on War, Simone Weil - \[meta]: - date: 12/12/2025 - tags: \["war","existentialism"] - [youtube/v=quIGiQNCPtE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIGiQNCPtE) — Walter Kaufmann on Oedipus & the Death of Tragedy (1974) - \[meta]: - date: 12/12/2025 - tags: \["love","tragic","prejudice"] - [wikipedia/en/Instrumental\_convergence![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence) — Instrumental convergence - \[meta]: - date: 12/11/2025 - tags: \["progress","singularity"] - [youtube/v=UBnu5EWMYqY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnu5EWMYqY) — Derrida on Husserl’s Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity - \[meta]: - date: 12/11/2025 - tags: \["continential philosophy","metaphysics"] - — [Simone de Beauvoir](/thoughts/Simone-de-Beauvoir), the Woman in Love - \[meta]: - date: 12/11/2025 - tags: \["love","relationship"] - [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/martha-nussbaums-moral-philosophies](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/martha-nussbaums-moral-philosophies) — Martha Nussbaum, The Philosopher of Feelings \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/10/2025 - tags: \["aging","inequality","family"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - In the lecture, she described how the Roman philosopher Seneca, at the end of each day, reflected on his misdeeds before saying to himself, “This time I pardon you.” The sentence brought Nussbaum to tears. She worried that her ability to work was an act of subconscious aggression, a sign that she didn’t love her mother enough. I shouldn’t be away lecturing, she thought. I shouldn’t have been a philosopher. Nussbaum sensed that her mother saw her work as cold and detached, a posture of invulnerability. “We aren’t very loving creatures, apparently, when we philosophize,” Nussbaum has written. - Nussbaum gave her lecture on mercy shortly after her mother’s funeral. She felt that her mother would have preferred that she forgo work for a few weeks, but when Nussbaum isn’t working she feels guilty and lazy, so she revised the lecture until she thought that it was one of the best she had ever written. She imagined her talk as a kind of reparation: the lecture was about the need to recognize how hard it is, even with the best intentions, to live a virtuous life. - A few years later, Nussbaum returned to her relationship with her mother in a dramatic dialogue that she wrote for Oxford University’s Philosophical Dialogues Competition, which she won. In the dialogue, a mother accuses her daughter, a renowned moral philosopher, of being ruthless. “You just don’t know what emotions are,” the mother says. Her father tells her, “Aren’t you a philosopher because you want, really, to live inside your own mind most of all? And not to need, not to love, anyone?” Her mother asks, “Isn’t it just because you don’t want to admit that thinking doesn’t control everything?” - The philosopher begs for forgiveness. “Why do you hate my thinking so much, Mommy?” she asks. “What can I say or write that will make you stop looking at me that way?” - Nussbaum is drawn to the idea that creative urgency—and the commitment to be good—derives from the awareness that we harbor aggression toward the people we love. A sixty-nine-year-old professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago (with appointments in classics, political science, Southern Asian studies, and the divinity school), Nussbaum has published twenty-four books and five hundred and nine papers and received fifty-seven honorary degrees. In 2014, she became the second woman to give the John Locke Lectures, at Oxford, the most eminent lecture series in philosophy. Last year, she received the Inamori Ethics Prize, an award for ethical leaders who improve the condition of mankind. - She soon drifted toward ancient philosophy, where she could follow Aristotle, who asked the basic question “How should a human live?” She realized that philosophy attracted a “logic-chopping type of person,” nearly always male. She came to believe that she understood Nietzsche’s thinking when he wrote that no great philosopher had ever been married. “I think what he was saying is that most philosophers have been in flight from human existence,” she said. “They just haven’t wanted to be entangled.” She rejected the idea, dominant in contemporary philosophy, that emotions were “unthinking energies that simply push the person around.” Instead, she resurrected a version of the Stoic theory that makes no division between thought and feeling. She gave emotions a central role in moral philosophy, arguing that they are cognitive in nature: they embody judgments about the world. - [youtube/v=1KemhfmAsg8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KemhfmAsg8\&list=PLhP9EhPApKE9tiKyeqdbeCMhVzb-JwAc1\&t=1502s) — Debate on Mind-Brain Relation: Searle vs Eccles (1984) - \[meta]: - date: 12/08/2025 - tags: \["functionalism","dualism"] - [youtube/v=ItaA-JDvDXY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaA-JDvDXY\&t=2279s) — Is the Mind a Physical Thing? (Tim Crane) - \[meta]: - date: 12/08/2025 - tags: \["functionalism"] - — Horses - \[meta]: - date: 12/08/2025 - tags: \["progress","llm"] - — Pareto Principles in Infinite Ethics - \[meta]: - date: 12/08/2025 - tags: \["ethics","ml"] - abstract: - — THE MUNDANITY OF EXCELLENCE: ANETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT ON STRATIFICATION AND OLYMPIC SWIMMERS - \[meta]: - date: 12/06/2025 - tags: \["excellency"] - [youtube/v=aaZbCctlll4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4) — What is it Like to be a Bat? - The hard problem of consciousness - \[meta]: - date: 12/03/2025 - tags: \["dualism","physicalism","consciousness"] - later: true - Attack on Physicalism - — Selected Correspondence of Descartes \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/02/2025 - tags: \["letter"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=D\_j8mDpRDzs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_j8mDpRDzs\&t=0s) — A. J. Ayer on the Concept of a Person (1961) - \[meta]: - date: 12/02/2025 - tags: \["metaphysics","being"] - pinned: true - — Why I want to be a Posthuman when I Grow Up - \[meta]: - date: 12/01/2025 - tags: \["longtermism"] - later: true - Extreme human enhancement could result in “posthuman” modes of being. - After offering some definitions and conceptual clarification, I argue for two theses: - First, some posthuman modes of being would be very worthwhile. - Second, it could be very good for human beings to become posthuman. - — Ordained and Absolute Power in Scotus’ Ordinatio I 44 - \[meta]: - date: 12/01/2025 - tags: \["theology"] - [youtube/v=ojll25IWOn8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojll25IWOn8) — Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form, by Matt Segall - \[meta]: - date: 11/30/2025 - tags: \["progress"] - [youtube/v=AFSa0bCbBMU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSa0bCbBMU\&t=0s) — The Death and Infinite, Gorgeous Resurrection of Hope - \[meta]: - date: 11/30/2025 - tags: \["eschatology"] - — Crocker’s Rules - \[meta]: - date: 11/28/2025 - tags: \["philosophy","interaction"] - — Spatial Reasoning in AGI - \[meta]: - date: 11/18/2025 - tags: \["ai","reasoning"] - [spatial awareness](/thoughts/spatial-awareness) + [llm](/tags/llm) to solve geometric problems. - — A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death - \[meta]: - date: 11/18/2025 - tags: \["eschatology"] - article from The Atlantic: - [youtube/v=xL\_sMXfzzyA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL_sMXfzzyA) — A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) - \[meta]: - date: 11/05/2025 - tags: \["life"] - Living in a world of ancients empires, atomic bomb - [youtube/v=14zv0c7cQmo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zv0c7cQmo) — Edith Stein’s philosophy of empathy - \[meta]: - date: 11/05/2025 - tags: \["empathy"] - two camps when talking about [Empathy](/thoughts/Empathy): - simulation theory: “putting yourself into another shoe” - theory theory: “mindreading” - She argues that empathy as “the experience of foreign consciousness in general”, i.e: doesn’t have to have shared experience, but rather a locus of their own subjectivity. - [youtube/v=WyofKBRpRqU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyofKBRpRqU) — Merleau-Ponty on the World of Perception & the World of Science (1948) - \[meta]: - date: 11/05/2025 - tags: \["world perception"] - [youtube/v=bH2EjxAn0Fk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2EjxAn0Fk) — Empathy: philosophical debates and phenomenology - \[meta]: - date: 11/04/2025 - tags: \["empathy","rationalist"] - theory theory versus [hermeneutics](/thoughts/hermeneutics) - [youtube/v=usxvyf3xqcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usxvyf3xqcQ) — Hubert Dreyfus - Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/29/2025 - tags: \["existentialism"] - highlighted: true - Lecture 8-15 - Lecture 1-7: [Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjfzyqCewdo) - Lecture 16-20: [Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols & The Gay Science](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdYLgH0bV9A) - [youtube/v=3\_kdbJnCMwU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_kdbJnCMwU\&ab_channel=DavidBalcarras) — Bryan Magee - The Great Philosophers \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/02/2025 - tags: \["ethnography"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=nNEweeN32QI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNEweeN32QI\&ab_channel=PhilosophyOverdose) — Is God an Unnecessary Hypothesis, Peter van Inwagen, 2004 Calvin College - \[meta]: - date: 08/02/2025 - tags: \["god"] - [youtube/v=AHmKd2Cxpa4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHmKd2Cxpa4) — The Philosophy of Locke & Berkeley - Bryan Magee & Michael Ayers (1987) - \[meta]: - date: 10/29/2025 - tags: \["empiricism"] - [youtube/v=H4\_Tsjmqxak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_Tsjmqxak) — Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism - Hubert Dreyfus & Bryan Magee (1987) - \[meta]: - date: 10/26/2025 - tags: \["existentialism"] - books: [Logical Investigations](/library/Logical-Investigations), [Being and Time](/library/Being-and-Time) - [youtube/v=Oq4sjz38z5A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4sjz38z5A) — Hubert Dreyfus discusses Heidegger & Merleau-Ponty \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/29/2025 - tags: \["brain","being"] - highlighted: true - why does Heidegger even bother to think about this given that we all uses our brains to experience the world? - Two inners: - Cartesian view: the brain in our skulls, but we don’t discuss it here. - causal basis and there is a brain, but _I don't experience my brain_. Yet, it is the plumping basis from what I work: - Heidegger: don’t have private experience, you only have experience against to the world - Sartre: chasing the bus, attraction, experience, or the bus to be caught → ego has disappeared → ego as inner experience. - private experience in going wrong, rather observing what is going wrong. - Starts with Homer - Heidegger are anti-Cartesian, feelings and things looks sad/attractive that it looks that way, but it actually doesn’t appear that way. These are surject. - [youtube/v=llu7prGMDhk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llu7prGMDhk\&ab_channel=JuliandeMedeiros) — Lacan/Žižek on how to find your dream: a step-by-step by step guide - \[meta]: - date: 08/02/2025 - tags: \["dream","being"] - [wikipedia/en/Rugged\_individualism![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugged_individualism) — Rugged individualism \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/29/2025 - tags: \["way of life"] - highlighted: true - — The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings - \[meta]: - date: 10/23/2025 - tags: \["love","deity"] - see also [aron-et-al-1997-the-experimental-generation-of-interpersonal-closeness-a-procedure-and-some-preliminary-findings.pdf](/thoughts/papers/aron-et-al-1997-the-experimental-generation-of-interpersonal-closeness-a-procedure-and-some-preliminary-findings.pdf) - [youtube/v=C7n7wfQOGaI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7n7wfQOGaI) — The Philosophy of Spinoza & Leibniz - Bryan Magee & Anthony Quinton (1987) - \[meta]: - date: 10/08/2025 - tags: \["rationalist"] - after Decartes, [Sphinoza](/thoughts/Sphinoza) - — can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire? \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["love"] - highlighted: true - desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness. > —Anaïs Nin - — Preventing Side-effects in Gridworlds - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["alignment"] - — A Quantum of Hope - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["quantum"] - [lesswrong/three-fallacies-of-teleology![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2HxAkCG7NWTrrn5R3/three-fallacies-of-teleology) — Three Fallacies of Teleology \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["philosophy","causality","ai"] - highlighted: true - Backward causality: Aristotle wrote: > Imagine not being able to distinguish the real cause from that without which the cause would not be able to act as a cause. It is what the majority appear to do, like people groping in the dark; they call it a cause, thus giving it a name that does not belong to it. That is why one man surrounds the earth with a vortex to make the heavens keep it in place, another makes the air support it like a wide lid. As for their capacity of being in the best place they could possibly be put, this they do not look for, nor do they believe it to have any divine force… It’s not clear to \[Yudkowsky] to what extent Aristotle appreciated this point - that you could not draw causal arrows from the future to the past. Aristotle did acknowledge that teeth also needed an efficient cause to develop. But Aristotle may have believed that the efficient cause could not act without the telos, or was directed by the telos, in which case we again have a reversed direction of causality, a dependency of the past on the future. I am no scholar of the classics, so it may be only myself who is ignorant of what Aristotle believed on this score. - Anthromorphism: > Teleological reasoning is anthropomorphic - it uses your own brain as a black box to predict external events. Specifically, teleology uses your brain’s planning mechanism as a black box to predict a chain of future events, by planning backward from a distant outcome. > And if you expect the water to avoid local maxima so it can get all the way to the bottom of the hill - to avoid being trapped in small puddles far above the ground - then your anthropomorphism is going to produce the wrong prediction - Teleological capture: > The third fallacy of teleology is to commit the [Mind Projection Fallacy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZTRiSNmeGQK8AkdN2/mind-projection-fallacy) with respect to telos, supposing it to be an inherent property of an object or system. Indeed, one does this every time one speaks of the purpose of an event, rather than speaking of some particular agent desiring the consequences of that event. - — Commentary on the Turing Apocrypha \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["longtermism","being"] - highlighted: true - basis for - _reframing exercise_. Not every theorist lost on [LLMs](/thoughts/LLMs), Barthes and Foucault for example are doing quite well. As difficult as it was to predict large language models some people had occasional glimpses of insight adjacent to or part of the underlying facts about reality that make LLMs possible. - [lesswrong/against-modal-logics![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vzLrQaGPa9DNCpuZz/against-modal-logics) — Against Modal Logics - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["philosophy"] - [lesswrong/consequentialism-is-a-compass-not-a-judge![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JumyfYQaJkWnjCcEr/consequentialism-is-a-compass-not-a-judge) — Consequentialism is a compass, not a judge - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["consequentialism","being"] - — The Concepts of Ideology, Hegemony, and Organic Intellectuals in Gramsci’s Marxism - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["philosophy"] - — Grokking Illusionism - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["alignment","ood"] - — Fake vs Real thinking - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["philosophy"] - — Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["ai","metaethics"] - highlighted: true - believe in an objective [ethical](/thoughts/ethics) truth - map-making with no territory: “figuring out the normative truth” (from normative realist) - [notes](/thoughts/anti-realist-do-ethics) - — Self-Fulfilling Misalignment Data Might Be Poisoning Our AI Models - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["alignment"] - — The Problem of Free Will - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["philosophy","realist"] - — Human Equivalents of the Peacock’s Tail - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["being"] - — Alien Life Info, But not Status, Found - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["interplanetary"] - [youtube/v=KIu4y1stILY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIu4y1stILY\&ab_channel=essentialsalts) — Politices as Neuro-Physiology, a conversation with Uberboyo - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2025 - tags: \["meta politics"] - In what way the connection between philosophy, ideas and cultural does [Nietzsche](/thoughts/Philosophy-and-Nietzsche) nihilism? - — Are we living in a simulation? - \[meta]: - date: 09/29/2025 - tags: \["hypothesis","simulation"] - — Our languages, our world - \[meta]: - date: 09/30/2025 - tags: \["linguistics"] - [youtube/v=E2x2WTWjcEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2x2WTWjcEA) — this word is the (True) purpose of human life - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["purposes","life"] - “The Son of God became man, that we might become god” - St. Athanasius of Alexandria - [youtube/v=Rupf69o8kQc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rupf69o8kQc) — Why Modern [love](/tags/love) feels empty - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["love"] - [Giles Deleuze](/thoughts/Giles-Deleuze): ventures outwards to realize these potentiality. - Commit someone who will inevitability fails us. - unfolding of love sustains the form of life itself - > [Transclude of quotes #^camus](/quotes#camus) - — Worship. Adoration. Valence - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["relationship"]