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Philosopher's Annual: From the Literature of 2025(leiterreports.com)
1 points by 3willows 17d ago|0 comments
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Angels and Demons (Aquinas 101) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by 3willows 18d ago|0 comments
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Software, Philosophy, and Skepticism (2025)(natemeyvis.com)
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Peter Fortin Programming for Philosophers (2023)(github.com)
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Eddy Chen on the Laws of Physics (2024) [pdf](eddykemingchen.net)
2 points by 3willows 6mo ago|1 comments
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by 3willows 6mo ago
A contemporary analytic philosopher defends a Non-Humean approach, Minimal Primitivism, where laws are taken at face value. Fundamental laws exist; they are fundamental features of reality, not reducible to anything else. This is a Non-Hum
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Dissociating Direct Access from Inference in AI Introspection(arxiv.org)
3 points by 3willows 6mo ago|0 comments
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Rigor in Analysis: From Newton to Cauchy (2005) [pdf](homsigmaa.net)
3 points by 3willows 6mo ago|1 comments
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by 3willows 6mo ago
includes an interesting discussion of how Legrange took seriously Biship Berkeley's criticism of calculus and how he worked towards modern rigorous calculus
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Language and Thought: The View from LLMs (2025)(arxiv.org)
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Generative Linguistics, LLMs, and the Social Nature of Scientific Success(arxiv.org)
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by 3willows 1y ago
Switch Angel is the best
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by 3willows 1y ago
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips
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by 3willows 1y ago
Nice thought provoking game. Won it in around 20 minutes (likely just luck; the cards dealt seem to be random). Blog post about this by the creator: https://thoughtwax.com/2025/07/2027-race-to-agi/
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2027: Race to AGI Game(thoughtwax.com)
2 points by 3willows 1y ago|2 comments
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by 3willows 1y ago
> After all, philosophy advertises itself as a home to critical thinking. Some of my professors said that I was too critical, which may seem prima facie absurd. It turned out that they were right, in a way. I was too critical of and fo
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by 3willows 1y ago
I've been looking for a way to play chess/go with a generalist LLM. It wouldn't matter if the moves are bad (I like winning), but being able to chat on unrelated topics while playing the game would take the experience to the
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by 3willows 1y ago
The point being: when you find someone who is tailoring all his/her/its attention to you and you alone, why bother talking to anyone else.
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by 3willows 1y ago
Perhaps that is the real danger. Everyone except a small elite who (rightly) feel they understand how LLMs work would simply give up serious thinking and accept whatever "majority" opinion is in their little social media bubble.
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GPT might be an information virus (2023)(nonint.com)
124 points by 3willows 1y ago|103 comments
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by 3willows 1y ago
I have been hyping up Hacker News for people who are not otherwise into tech/engineering: so here's version (a minor tweak of https://jsomers.net/hn/ ) that filters out the tech content. The filter is not perf
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Philosophy Hacker News(phn.wongjasper.com)
4 points by 3willows 1y ago|1 comments
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Yes, when I got to that part, I was unsure whether you actually need 350 logic gates to implement Conway's Game of Life. It feels like that cannot be the minimum number. But presumably other mechanisms already exist where we can auto
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I found a real-world crypto malicious JavaScript injection (2023)
1 points by 3willows 2y ago|0 comments
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by 3willows 2y ago
Judges and lawyers should shape legal tech's future. If they don't, VCs will.
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UK Government publishes consultation on Copyright and AI(technollama.co.uk)
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Re-interpreting astrology as an analysis of imperial court politics(books-blog.3willows.xyz)
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by 3willows 2y ago
I think Nozick's example is meant to make us re-think whether there is a strict separation between music (or other artistic) reputation and love of reputation. In Anarchy, State and Utopia, he tackles some utopian theorists' claim
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Deep Seek Coder, no code programming, and the programmer as the product(programming-blog.3willows.xyz)
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by 3willows 2y ago
To clarify, what Nozick meant was what if Beethoven was just turning the crank . "Yet our experience of Beethoven's string quartets would be diminished if we discovered he had stumbled upon someone else's rules for musical c

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