Consenting Thought
Thinking about bodies, minds, machines, and relationships in a complex world.
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"Vibe critiques" are coming: the unbearable asymmetry of bullshit revisited (opens the original)
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Some of my work is controversial. Probably most controversial are my arguments about children’s rights. I focus on the right to bodily integrity, and I ask what it means for the permissibility of different types of genital cutting or surgery. I look at all types of practices: those affecting girls, those affecting boys, and those affecting children with intersex traits (who are usually raised as either females or males). I mostly address cases that happen before puberty, where it's clear the chi
Watermarks are not the solution (opens the original)
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I’ve been meaning to get around to commenting on Anthropic’s recent announcement that Claude will start watermarking AI-generated text in all new models going forward. So, with my colleagues Julian Savulescu, Udo Schüklenk, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann, I’ve put together a short piece describing how watermarking works, explaining why—even if it were technically flawless—it might not closely track the question of substantive human intellectual contribution, which I think is behind a lot of text-det
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