Latest links…
- Problem Trolley — a prompt to reflect on the kinds of examples moral philosophers like to use (via Daniel Story)
- “While GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving” — a new study on the effects of AI use in “knowledge work”
- “There is little reason to think that these defenders [of strict immigration control] have done anything better than fantasize about immigration restrictions in an imaginary world” — Edward Hall on why the facts about immigration matter for philosophizing about it
- “I thought, I could spend the rest of my life playing whack-a-mole with each empirical claim, or I could step back and say, what exactly is the thing that makes it wrong to cut somebody’s penis without their consent?” — an interview with Brian Earp at the Bruchim Podcast
- “One gets a view of the whole profession that cannot easily be matched in any given department or within any given subfield” — Richard Bett, who has been involved with the leadership of the APA in one capacity or another for 25 years, reflects on his experiences
- When an LLM adds two numbers together to get a sum, how does it do that? — it’s not how you do it, nor how a calculator does it, nor is it text prediction
- “If I do something that foreseeably provokes someone else to act in a way that I consider highly unethical, how much responsibility do I bear for that outcome?” — Joseph Heath on moral responsibility for political backlash
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