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• Nietzsche's metaphilosophy January 3, 2026
• David Sloan Wilson on Seeing Like A Scientist December 31, 2025
• Ezra Klein on power July 27, 2025
• Artificial Jagged Intelligence June 30, 2025
• Riva Tez on soap May 30, 2025
• It's happening (extreme risks from AI) May 30, 2025
• Human takeover might be worse than AI takeover May 30, 2025
• Timeline update January 26, 2025
• Noam Brown on feeling the AGI December 17, 2024
• Ellsberg to Kissenger, on security clearance December 16, 2024
• October 16, 2024
• Michael Nielsen and others on privacy October 6, 2024
• Nick Cammarata on chasing your last few years of intelligence alpha September 20, 2024
• OpenAI o1 solves a cipher September 12, 2024
• “Learn to do everything lightly” August 8, 2024
• ”Common sense is often wielded like a gun” June 10, 2024
• "Today’s AI is the worst you’ll ever use." January 12, 2024
• Holden Karnofsky: the fast takeoff scenario is a key motivation for preemptive AI safety measures January 4, 2024
• Are LLMs reasoning or reciting? January 2, 2024
• Are LLMs reasoning or reciting? January 2, 2024
• Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments January 1, 2024
• December 28, 2023
• Frank Ramsey on the view from somewhere December 28, 2023
• A Christmas message from Walter Benjamin December 24, 2023
• Tyler Cowen on Malthus December 23, 2023
• Joseph Heath on Kantian evolutionary naturalism (rationality, pragmatism and deontic constraints) December 9, 2023
• Sam Altman on The Merge November 30, 2023
• Vitalik Buterin on superintelligence: merge or die November 30, 2023
• Scott Alexander on conservatism self-preservation-against-optimality urge November 30, 2023
• Scott Alexander on liberalism and universal culture November 29, 2023
• Michael Nielsen is having second thoughts November 27, 2023
• Tyler Cowen on Malthus on vice November 23, 2023
• Flo Crivello on entrepreneurship in the present moment November 13, 2023
• Richard Ngo on posthuman freedom November 9, 2023
• Sam Altman's closing remarks at OpenAI DevDay November 7, 2023
• “The Manifesto of Futurism“ by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti November 6, 2023
• Fin Moorhouse & Max Tegmark on the braids of life October 31, 2023
• Joscha Bach: meaning is instrumental to life October 23, 2023
• Paul Christiano on making AI go well October 22, 2023
• Sarah Waker & Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory (and a definition of life) October 13, 2023
• Robert Skidelsky on aristocratic self-confidence October 7, 2023
• G.A. Cohen on the conservative bias to retain what is of valuable, even in the face of replacing it by something of greater value September 28, 2023
• Hilary Greaves on definitions of existential risk September 28, 2023
• Matt Ridley on innovation vs invention September 26, 2023
• Jerry Z Muller on left and right-wing totalitarianism in the early 20th century September 25, 2023
• Richard Danzig on technology roulette and the U.S. military September 25, 2023
• Robin Hanson on the future as reality (read by my digital avatar) September 21, 2023
• Peter Singer on the non-natural origin of the axiom of impartial benevolence September 20, 2023
• Peter Thiel on the Hegelian tension of AI September 19, 2023
• Peter Thiel on the Darwinian view of alignment September 19, 2023
• Asmir Gračanin et al. on the function of tears September 19, 2023
• Joe Carlsmith on the utilitarian dream September 19, 2023
• Joe Carlsmith against "non-naturalistic realism or bust" September 19, 2023
• September 17, 2023
• Tyler Cowen's core view on AI September 13, 2023
• @mfweof and @RokoMijic on naturalistic metaethics September 2, 2023
• August 28, 2023
• Kendall Roy on Logan Roy July 11, 2023
• Tom Holland on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians March 23, 2023
• Carl Schmitt on liberalism February 14, 2023
• Otto Petras on the conditions for religious awe February 12, 2023
• Chris Cullen: what do you want to naturalise? February 4, 2023
• Richard Meadows & Nassim Taleb on FU money January 18, 2023
• The last homily of Pope Pius XII January 15, 2023
• Marc Andreessen on the heros we're allowed to have January 15, 2023
• Jonathan Bi on how to live with a Girardian worldview January 2, 2023
• Nick Bostrom on differential technological development November 19, 2022
• Nick Bostrom on "turnkey totalitarianism" November 19, 2022
• Iain McGilchrist on the left and right hemispheres June 16, 2022
• Tyler Cowen on axiology: I see the good as more holistic than additive-aggregative April 18, 2022
• Robin Hanson on his methods March 22, 2022
• Joe Carlsmith on expected utility maximisation March 19, 2022
• Dominic Cummings: given they don't take nuclear weapons seriously, never assume they're taking X seriously March 19, 2022
• Francis Bacon on pragmatism March 15, 2022
• Adam Waytz on The Illusion of Explanatory Depth March 3, 2022
• Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler on libertarian paternalism February 24, 2022
• Holden Karnofsky on utility legions February 22, 2022
• Tyler Cowen on historicism and taking sides February 21, 2022
• Eliezer Yudkowsky on naturalism February 16, 2022
• Tyler Cowen on who should get more status February 15, 2022
• Nick Bostrom on singletons February 14, 2022
• Anders Sandberg on transhumanism February 11, 2022
• Robin Hanson on world government and collective suicide February 10, 2022
• Bernard Williams on Sidgwick and the ambitions of ethics February 8, 2022
• John Maynard Keynes on Sidgwick February 7, 2022
• Tim Urban on cosmology January 1, 2022
• Robin Hanson on value drift December 31, 2021
• John Richardson on Nietzsche's metaethics December 30, 2021
• Elijah Millgram's pragmatic critique of internalism December 29, 2021
• John Richardson on Nietzsche's naturalism December 28, 2021
• Report on human augmentation from the UK Ministry of Defence (May 2021) December 25, 2021
• Eliezer Yudkowsky: Darwin discovered God December 25, 2021
• Robin Hanson: This is the Dream Time December 24, 2021
• Comments on "This is the Dream Time" December 24, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on moral principles and the margins at which we should give them up December 23, 2021
• Ross Douthat speculates on religious responses to transformative technology December 22, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on Straussian truths and rational choice ethics December 21, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on our local cone of value, and the name of his book December 20, 2021
• Ruth Chang on parity, agency and rational identity December 17, 2021
• Holden Karnofsky on visualising utopia December 16, 2021
• Richard Rorty on Proust and Hegel December 15, 2021
• Richard Rorty on his path from Plato to Hegel to Dewey December 15, 2021
• Bernard Williams reviews Nagel on reason December 14, 2021
• Thomas Nagel on reason December 14, 2021
• Joe Carlsmith on secular love and loyalty December 13, 2021
• Maxwell Tabarrok on growth as condition for cooperation December 12, 2021
• Robin Hanson: one of our main choices is between competition and governance December 11, 2021
• Brian Leiter on naturalism and normativity December 10, 2021
• Agnes Callard on philosophy December 9, 2021
• Chrisopher Janaway on Nietzsche's Genealogy December 8, 2021
• Nietzsche on metaphysics as symptom December 7, 2021
• Simon Blackburn on people who think that anti-realism entails nihilism December 5, 2021
• Joshua Greeen on utiltiarianism as "deep pragmatism" December 4, 2021
• Joe Carlsmith on the importance of how you weigh it December 3, 2021
• Elijah Millgram on metaphysics as intellectual ergonomics December 2, 2021
• What is philosophy? Some answers. November 30, 2021
• Parfit's optimism November 29, 2021
• Georges Bataille on Nietzsche November 28, 2021
• Cheryl Misak on Ramsey's pragmatism November 27, 2021
• David Pearce on natural conception November 26, 2021
• When we read someone else thinks for us November 25, 2021
• C. Thi Nguyen on clarity November 19, 2021
• Cass Sunstein on Sludge Audits November 18, 2021
• Nietzsche on love of fate November 17, 2021
• William James on religion, healthy-mindedness, melancholy metaphysicians November 16, 2021
• William James on morality and religion November 15, 2021
• William James on religion November 14, 2021
• Nietzsche on pluralism November 13, 2021
• William James on dogmatism and its origins; fruitful pathologies November 12, 2021
• Peter Thiel on envy November 11, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on how to be a good agnostic November 10, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on reasons to be dogmatic November 9, 2021
• Peter Thiel on faith, reason and hyper-Christianity November 6, 2021
• Francis Fukuyama on boredom and sacrifice November 5, 2021
• Wolf Tivy on transhumanism and Henry David Thoreau November 4, 2021
• Ronald Dworkin on Posner's doubts about the persuasiveness of moral arguments November 3, 2021
• Richard Posner on moral entrepreneurs November 3, 2021
• Elisabeth Costello - The Philosophers and The Animals November 2, 2021
• John Dewey on moral principles November 1, 2021
• John Vervaeke on rationality, relevance realisation and insight October 30, 2021
• Richard Rorty reviews Truth and Truthfulness by Bernard Williams October 29, 2021
• Nietzsche on the prospect of secular ethics (as quoted on the dedication of Reasons & Persons) October 28, 2021
• Nietzsche on love of truth, life, and perhaps even cultivating the species October 27, 2021
• Tyler Cowen on Builders vs Nervous Nellies October 26, 2021
• Ash Milton on meritocratic elite selection October 25, 2021
• Keynes on Economics and the Limits of Decision Theory October 23, 2021
• Robin Hanson on the future as reality October 20, 2021
• Nietzsche's mountain October 19, 2021
• Nick Bostrom on the influence of moral prophets October 19, 2021
• Nick Bostrom on crucial considerations October 19, 2021
• Bernard Williams musing on his career October 18, 2021
• Holden Karnofsky on bounded commensurability as a way to get "ahead of the curve" on moral values October 17, 2021
• Nietzsche on objectivity October 15, 2021
• Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek on the attractions of monistic hedonism October 15, 2021
• Tyler Cowen: what kind of stories should we be suspicious of? October 14, 2021

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