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Items of interest…
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- Bentham had 26 “death rings” made, each with his silhouette and a lock of his hair. Since his death, the rings have been “scattered around the world, with people hunting to find them” — one of them has recently been found, and will be auctioned
- Like ChatGPT, but instead of producing text in response to your prompts, it makes videos—scarily realistic videos — check out what, an OpenAI project, can do
- “The answer ‘It has no meaning’ isn’t negative or disappointing. It’s celebratory. It’s the only answer that grasps the value of life and the nature of its value – apart from being true” — Galen Strawson (UT Austin) on “What is the meaning of life?”
- Outdoorsman, prisoner of war, spy, and philosopher — the remarkable life of Winthrop Bell, who was a professor of philosophy at Harvard in the 1920s and 30s
- “You defang hierarchies not by denying them but by multiplying them” — philosophers have asked, “equality of what?” An historian takes up the question, “equality of whom”?
- “AI systems will enable a genre of generative agents that… bring new urgency to previously neglected philosophical questions” — excellent article by Seth Lazar (ANU) on the moral pitfalls and moral potential of AI, discussing issues you likely haven’t thought of before
- A list of journals, across various disciplines, that have seen editors resign en masse since 2015 — from Retraction Watch
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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