James Fodor

I have been increasingly surprised over the past year at what I perceive to be the lack of critical thinking in response to new announcements regarding AI model capabilities.

Introduction The recent development of large language models (LLMs) based on the transformer architecture has led to extensive discussion as to how to best measure their capabilities.

Originally written for the Australian Humanist magazine, Oct 2024 Critical thinking is the activity of carefully applying our intellect to form beliefs informed by the best available evidence and reasons, while reducing the impact of bias and other sources

Essay originally written for Rationalist magazine, Aug 2024 Science communication aims to describe scientific research and findings to the general public in a persuasive and comprehensive manner.

The following is a short email that I wrote to the ABC in response to the linked article about indexation of student loans under the HECS system.

Note: this article was originally written in May 2023 and published on the EA forum.

Introduction In this article I will provide a brief critique of the way an ‘AI takeover scenario’ is typically presented in EA discourse.

Introduction In this piece I want to discuss the political philosophy of liberalism, outlining its key tenets, the historical context in which it has arisen and developed, and discussing its relationship to various rival ideologies in the political landsc…

Introduction I am writing this mostly to get some things off my chest, and also for the sake of posterity.

Introduction The Kalam Cosmological Argument is an argument for the existence of God that Craig developed during his doctoral work in the 1970s.