Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience. Feel free to discuss.
The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap.
- Kant: Are you guys talking about snack mix? / Glaucon: But of course. Join us.
- Understanding and operationalizing curiosity — in order to program artificial intelligence to be curious
- “We wouldn’t have all these problems… if people just learned to be more logical and science-driven”
- What makes for good advice? — the Open Questions podcast discusses this with Eric Wiland (Missouri – St. Louis) and advice columnist Ellie Tesher
- The aesthetic aspect of means-end rationality — an unnecessarily but amusingly complicated argument from Elijah Millgram (Utah)
- A new bizarrely popular game has players take on role of an artificial intelligence running the universe’s most efficient paperclip company — and it was inspired by a thought experiment from philosopher Nick Bostrom (Oxford)
- What do normal people normally mean by “normal”? — it depends, according to recent research in various disciplines, including x-phi & cog sci
- Do we hold people responsible for their genes? — Philip Robbins & Paul Litton (Missouri) find we are harder on mentally ill criminals when the cause of their illness is genetic
- Next time you feel bad about how you’re spending your time — especially if you’re a utilitarian
- Blade Runner: “manna from heaven to a philosopher teaching personal identity” — Helen Beebee (Manchester) explains
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