DEONTOLOGISTICS

A couple updates for readers.

It’s been a long time coming, but my second book, The Revenge of Reason, is finally available to buy.

Here’s a recent thread on philosophy of AI from Twitter/X, in which I address rather popular arguments made by Emily Bender and others to the effect that LLM outputs are strictly speaking meaningless.

Here’s a recent thread musing about problems with Bayesian conceptions of general intelligence and the more specific variants based on Solmonoff induction, such as AIXI.

Here’s a thread from the end of last year trying to reframe the core question of the computational theory of mind.

If there’s a subject I’m officially an expert on, it’s what you might call the methodology of metaphysics: the question of what metaphysics is and how to go about it.

For those of you who haven’t already noticed, Deontologistics has undergone a bit of a redesign of late.

Content Notes: Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Bipolar Disorder, Plurality/Multiplicity, TERFism, Personal Identity, Posthumanism.

Content Notes: Amateur Genetics, Neurodiversity, Nick Land, NRx, Racism, Ignorance, Stupidity, Addiction As some people may have noticed, my experiments in using twitter as a platform for philosophical writing have become a bit more interactive of late.

Here’s a thread from a few weeks ago, explaining an interesting but underexplored overlap between a theoretical problem in philosophy and a practical problem in computer science: Okay, it looks like I’m going to have to explain my take on the rule-followi…