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terujithomas.bsky.social
Philosopher at Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford https://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert2060/
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Reading this: arxiv.org/abs/2502.08640 From the abstract: "We uncover problematic and often shocking values in LLM assistants despite existing control measures. These include cases where AIs value themselves over humans and are anti-aligned with specific individuals." Big if true...

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Here's my newly appearing paper on the simulation argument. Open access at Erkenntnis. It presents an improvement on the old argument that we're more likely to be living in a computer simulation than in ground-level reality. Or that I am, anyway!

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Within 10 years we'll be trepanning ourselves with kimchi

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Reading "On the Triviality of Higher-Order Probabilistic Beliefs" by Dov Samet. Occasionally I see this unpublished #epistemology paper cited and wonder what's up with it... Let's see...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Well, at least they found the pies.

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We’re excited to announce our new research agendas – for philosophy, economics and psychology – have now been published! You can read them here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-age...

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Today I'm reading "The Principal Principle Implies the Principle of Indifference" by James Hawthorne, Jürgen Landes, Christian Wallmann & Jon Williamson, arguing against subjective Bayesianism. Main thought: the title is a bit overstated! A read-along thread:

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Our book came out today 🥳 In 'What Are Zoos For?' we examine the common justifications for zoos and argue that zoos are (or should be) for animals, placing animal welfare at the centre of their operations. Order here, or through most online booksellers: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments