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Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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Woke 1 Was Lazy (opens the original)
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Wishful Thinking Is (Mostly) A Myth - Unpaywalled (opens the original)
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GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’ (opens the original)
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There is currently much debate about how impressive frontier AI models really are and what role they can play in research, including in academic philosophy. To get some evidence, I asked GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new model, to review my book, ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’, co-authored with Sam Wilkinson and Kengo Miyazono and recently published by Oxford University Press. (For a brief summar
Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI (opens the original)
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The Social Roots of Delusions (opens the original)
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Today is the official publication date of The Social Roots of Delusions, a book that I co-authored with Sam Wilkinson and Kengo Miyazono.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRiM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
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