HeyJaredThe Splintered Mind
reflections on the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed
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Should We Build AI Guardian Angels? (opens the original)
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I have argued that if we someday create AI persons -- that is, AI systems with genuinely rich conscious experiences, fully deserving of equal rights with ordinary humans -- then we should not design them to deferentially serve us, even if serving us makes them happy. We should design them instead as our non-deferential equals.My main argument turns on self-sacrificial cases, such as <a href="https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2016/0
Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights -- Chapter Zero (opens the original)
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In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I set it aside for a couple of months to get some distance on it while it accumulated comments. I’ll soon dive back in for a fresh round of revisions. Comments are still very welcome!As a teaser, here’s the current draft of Chapter Zero:The Cambrian Explosion – how slow, how subtle! About 540 million years ago, in the Cambrian period, most of the major animal phyla arose – arthropods (becoming insects, spide
New in Draft: Walking the Walk (opens the original)
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Over almost a decade, starting in 2007, I conducted a series of empirical studies (mostly collaboratively with Joshua Rust) on the moral behavior of ethics professors. We consistently found that ethicists don’t behave better than professors specializing in other areas of study.What is the philosophical import of this empirical result? I’m not drawn to glib or simplistic interpretations, such as that studying ethics is useless, or motivationall
Types and Conditions of Moral Order (opens the original)
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Is the world morally ordered? Do good things come to those who act well and bad things to those who act badly? Do the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer?I will not -- you’ll be disappointed to hear -- actually answer this question in this post. Instead, I’ll discuss the structure of several possible answers, so that we can better think about how to think about thinking about the question.<div class="p
Summary of *The Weirdness of the World* (opens the original)
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Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World, by the author himself. You probably haven’t had time to read the whole thing (I don’t blame you). So here’s a synthesis of what I see as the most central ideas.(I wrote it for a book symposium forthcoming in <a href="https://www.imprint.co.uk
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