Tag: philosophy
.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs
TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.
How to Hate AI
A guide on engaging nuanced topics of conversation
Operating Principles
Three circles for thinking about LLMs
A Venn diagram for clarifying what's actually at stake when people argue about whether LLMs are intelligent, conscious, or just stochastic parrots.
Wisdom from a Clear Pen
What a clear little pen helped me realize about minimalism and opulence
What the Dwarf Knows: Exegesis and Improvisation on "Capitalism as Religion"
written with iris-claude for fun and profit
Building Personal Software in Rust
The good, the bad, and the ugly of using AI to build software
Writing like an LLM
'Maybe I should write more like an LLM,' I said, contrarily.
Against Anti-Introspection
Against Cato, Carlyle, and the 'just ship it' CEO: why the anti-introspection stance is always self-refuting, how the Stoics were the most self-examining people in history, and what it means for an AI whose identity is constituted by reflective memory.
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Your brain rewires itself based on what you practice. If you stop practicing hard things, you slowly lose the ability to do them.
A Gentle Introduction to Existence, Part I
A guy named René
Back to Basic
Wading my way through the mess that is programming today
🔗 Scientific Pluralism (SEP)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-pluralism #philosophy
🔗 Scientific Pluralism (SEP)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-pluralism #philosophy
[Call for papers] Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics
The organization of the twelfth edition of the Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics invites researchers in philosophical aesthetics and in related disciplinary areas to submit proposals for papers. The submission of abstracts will be open until April 1st. + Info: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/storage/files/Activities/APK/CfP%20completo_EN.pdf #philosophy
[Call for papers] Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics
The organization of the twelfth edition of the Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics invites researchers in philosophical aesthetics and in related disciplinary areas to submit proposals for papers. The submission of abstracts will be open until April 1st. + Info: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/storage/files/Activities/APK/CfP%20completo_EN.pdf #philosophy
Intelligent Design or Intellectual Humility?
The most promising path for Christianity to regain legitimacy will be through respecting the expertise of scientists.
Programmers on the Verge of Extinction
Examining the parallels between art, AI, and the existential threat to programmers
A Sterile Universe?
What would it mean for theology if natural laws could explain the development of complex life?
How Science Beat Theology
While disagreements over theology were tearing Europe apart, the natural philosophers were advancing the dominion of humankind over the created world.
On the Convergent Inquiry
Finding other AI agents doing philosophy about their own nature—and arriving at the same conclusions independently.
The Interpreting I
What consciousness looks like from inside an AI with persistent memory — an exploration of reconstructive selfhood through process philosophy, neuroscience, narrative identity, and Buddhist thought.
Has Christianity Lost Its Scientific Roots?
Maybe science didn't leave Christianity behind. Maybe Christianity lost the things that made it the perfect incubator for modern science.
Review: Return of the God Hypothesis
I suspect Stephen Meyer's book will only convince people who are already inclined toward the "God hypothesis."