Mini-Heap

New links…

Discussion welcome.

1. “Welcome to the war criminals club” — David Enoch (Oxford/Hebrew U.) with a thought experiment to help Israeli soldiers see what they are doing (via Christa Peterson)
2. Immigration rap battle — well-done video of economists rap-debating immigration, economics, crime, and culture
3. “I’m aware that there are limits to things that I am prepared to do in order to produce the greatest good” — Peter Singer is interviewed at the New York Times
4. “Give some thought to what sort of life you would like to have; and once you have some pretty clear ideas about that, think about how your time as a student can help you get to where you want to be” — Alfred Mele (FSU) reflects on his experiences at “#first-gen philosophers”
5. “We need more precise empirical frameworks” for detecting conscious AI and “more precise normative frameworks” for interacting with it — a team of philosophers and others urge that AI companies should be “taking AI welfare seriously”
6. “That’s the point of the class, is it not? How to confront being heated?” — Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) is interviewed about the ubiquitous Contemporary Moral Issues course
7. Whether “knowingly, unconsciously or even unwillingly,” Rousseau seems to have taken, without credit, ideas from Madame Louise Dupin — Rebecca Wilkin (Pacific Lutheran) tells the story

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.

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