Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious
Tech companies stand to benefit from widespread public misperceptions that AI is sentient despite a dearth of scientific evidence.
Nadav Neuman
· 8 min read
Moral Philosophy
A collection of 18 posts
The Language of Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
Samuel Cornell
· 6 min read
Theatre of Blood
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Yuki Zeman
· 19 min read
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Matthew Adelstein
· 9 min read
The Genocidal Imagination
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
Pascal Bruckner
· 21 min read
Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap
The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering.
Michael Walzer
· 10 min read
The Radical Humanitarian Doctrine
Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
On Political Hatred
On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Moral Toddlers Making a Mess
Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it.
Robert Tracinski
· 6 min read
The Universal Structure of Storytelling
Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers.
Jonathan Gottschall
· 11 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
· 16 min read
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Matthew Wardour
· 7 min read
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
Steven D. Hales
· 10 min read
Religious Progressivism
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
Colin Turfus
· 7 min read
Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.
John Staddon
· 6 min read