Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil
Philosopher, University of Sussex. Tweets in personal capacity. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Society. Writes at: https://t.co/MniDhzFVe4 danwilliamsphilosophy.com Brighton England Joined November 2010-
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Interesting conversation! A few quick thoughts: - Sutton is right that AI researchers should be focusing first and foremost on capacities that humans share with other animals, not human-specific capacities, even if their goal is ultimately to understand and replicate in machines…
Interesting conversation! A few quick thoughts: - Sutton is right that AI researchers should be focusing first and foremost on capacities that humans share with other animals, not human-specific capacities, even if their goal is ultimately to understand and replicate in machines…
"Why are progressives, who are supposedly in favour of progress, incapable of making any progress when it comes to the formulation of progressive ideas?" open.substack.com/pub/josephheat…
there is a moral panic around short form video content imo
Good list of social paradoxes from @DavidPinsof, cited in @sapinker's "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . ."
An imbalance of power erodes the quality of public debate. The dominant side faces fewer epistemic constraints on its arguments, while the dominated side has less incentive to produce strong arguments or to engage with the rules of knowledge institutions.
My paper, 'Does Democratic Competence Require a Commitment to Electoral Democracy?', is now forthcoming at Res Publica. P.S. My answer is "no". philpapers.org/rec/GIBDDC
As someone who lived in Manhattan for seven years *very recently* while comfortably supporting a family of four on an income that was above the national average but below 100k: hard agree. If you're making over 200k in household income and you're "broke" ... maybe consider…
As someone who lived in Manhattan for seven years *very recently* while comfortably supporting a family of four on an income that was above the national average but below 100k: hard agree. If you're making over 200k in household income and you're "broke" ... maybe consider…
Again a good conversation! Dan and I agree that infrastructure and institutions are a critical part of power projection, but disagree about how effectively misaligned AGI would be able to leverage them. I can imagine it doing so quite effectively in an "éminence grise" role.
Again a good conversation! Dan and I agree that infrastructure and institutions are a critical part of power projection, but disagree about how effectively misaligned AGI would be able to leverage them. I can imagine it doing so quite effectively in an "éminence grise" role.
I am glad ppl across the political spectrum are discovering that Yarvin's style of (not?) thinking is fundamentally illogical. Hopefully we exit the era of getting bamboozled by such nonsense.
🔥Proud to release my review article on why political activists often engage in speech repression! 🔥 “Speech repression and threat narratives in politics: social goals and cognitive foundations” @NYASciences Open access link: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ny…
This was fun! The Context is AI superpersuaders, and how feasible it would be to shift strongly-held views. Dan's view: changing people's minds is hard! Response: it's hard in aggregate, but targeted unscrupulous influence of a single individual seems possible to me.
This was fun! The Context is AI superpersuaders, and how feasible it would be to shift strongly-held views. Dan's view: changing people's minds is hard! Response: it's hard in aggregate, but targeted unscrupulous influence of a single individual seems possible to me.
@politicalmath @danwilliamsphil Where in Dan's statement (at least – I haven't looked at his other posts) is there evidence that he hates the people he politically opposes? And isn't his reflection here an early step towards humanizing them?
This looks extremely interesting and valuable - looking forward to digging into it.
A pre-announcement: this Friday sees the digital (Open-Access) publication of my forthcoming @OUPAcademic book _Architectures of Global AI Governance_ , a work years in the making. After so long telling you all about it, I couldn't be prouder and more excited to soon share this

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