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finmoorhouse.com
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| | | | | Fin Moorhouse's website | |
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handsandcities.com
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| | | | | Second in a two-part series on whether morality falls out of instrumental rationality, if you do the game theory right. I discuss four objections to the morality in question: that it isn't instrumentally rational; that it gives the wrong types of reasons for moral behavior; that it incentivizes threats and exploitation; and that it licenses arbitrarily bad behavior towards the sufficiently disempowered and unloved. | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | Question for the day: what do libertarianism and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics have in common? Interest in the two worldviews seems to be positively correlated: think of quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch, or several prominent posters over at Overcoming Bias, or ... oh, alright, my sample size is admittedly pretty small. Some connections... | |
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broadspeculations.com
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| | | A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary... | ||
