A blog by Alex Libre
Orca & Fishbowl
Exploring ideas at the intersection of AI, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology.
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All writingBecause the World Is a Fantastically Strange Place
This is a re-post, with a new epilogue at the end. Originally published on March 8th, 2015, in Dartmouth’s Mouth Magazine.
10 min read · Mental Health · Relationships · Writing · Parenting
Why you should care if AI is conscious (or not)
I want to start this piece by stating that what I argue below is something I did not used to believe. I have radically changed my position on AI consciousness since I first…
4 min read · Consciousness · AI
7 Very Good Reasons Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and neuroscience, have lent credence to the notion that machines may…
13 min read · Consciousness · Science · AI · Philosophy
You can probably just tell the truth much more often than you think
Sam Harris convinced me of something most people miss: in many situations where lying seems kind, a tactful version of the truth is available, and it serves everyone better.
3 min read · Truth · Ethics · Relationships
If you're not yet using AI to get feedback on your human writing, you should start
I fed Claude all of my published content from Substack, and asked it to give me some feedback on my writing. Claude's response was so shockingly useful and incisive that I would rate it as the most helpful, actionable, insightful feedback I've ever received.
12 min read · AI · Writing · Personal
Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented
There are good reasons to believe that education could be a lot better than it currently is in most school systems. Freddie deBoer is, as he often is, confused about this.
7 min read · Education · Critical Thinking · Philosophy · Parenting