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- Concepts Don't Exist https://ykulbashian.medium.com/concepts-dont-exist-as-objective-phenomenological-cognitive-or-neural-structures-07ced16ecb14 3 comments
- A “good movie” is defined by how confident you feel defending it: How we convert our social motives into objective concepts and beliefs https://ykulbashian.medium.com/a-good-movie-is-defined-by-how-confident-you-feel-defending-it-680ccae4a76e 75 comments philosophy
- A person's philosophical concepts/beliefs are an indirect product of their motives and needs https://ykulbashian.medium.com/a-device-that-produces-philosophy-f0fdb4b33e27 44 comments philosophy
- It may be impossible to justify changing your values, and yet you must not resist it. Joseph Campbell and the wisdom outside of wisdom. https://ykulbashian.medium.com/it-may-be-impossible-to-justify-changing-your-values-and-yet-you-must-not-resist-it-a7752d157d85 7 comments philosophy
- Kant, Hume, and corporate interests: the three pillars of current AI paradigms https://ykulbashian.medium.com/getting-past-kants-and-hume-s-legacy-in-ai-research-6aa74d0bd879 15 comments philosophy
- Critical thinking and "wishful thinking" are both inflections of one general type of values-based belief https://ykulbashian.medium.com/abandoning-statistical-world-models-for-wishful-thinking-750a4ca0e117 50 comments philosophy
- Experiences can’t contradict each other, only motives can: A detailed critique of the human faculty of contradiction https://ykulbashian.medium.com/experiences-cant-contradict-each-other-only-motives-can-0bf3ea13cf88 19 comments philosophy
- Over-enthusiasm for AI is born out of a misguided hope of "democratizing" intelligence https://ykulbashian.medium.com/ai-enthusiasm-and-the-false-promise-of-democratizing-intelligence-ec7094215f4d 170 comments philosophy
- How it would feel to be a rat under remote control: analyzing a breakdown of the connection between mind and body https://ykulbashian.medium.com/how-it-would-feel-to-be-a-rat-under-remote-control-5fc43f97c087 11 comments philosophy
- Pushing the objective world away: The mind must learn how to separate the "self" from the "external world" https://ykulbashian.medium.com/pushing-the-objective-world-away-5aafe3278ce5 26 comments philosophy
- The examined life may not be worth living either: A defense of a casual play-through of life https://ykulbashian.medium.com/the-examined-life-may-not-be-worth-living-either-accfcf3efcf3 33 comments philosophy
- How your needs invent your consciousness: Looking for "Dasein" actually creates it in retrospective memory https://ykulbashian.medium.com/how-your-needs-invent-your-consciousness-f4e062d39a19 11 comments philosophy
- Logical consistency as a social burden: Maintaining coherent beliefs is not useful to an individual outside their society https://ykulbashian.medium.com/logical-consistency-is-a-social-burden-bbd0c947e591 148 comments philosophy
- A primer on Kant and transcendental idealism: space, time, and object-ness are features of the subjective mind, not of reality https://ykulbashian.medium.com/a-brief-digression-into-kants-transcendental-idealism-49daca8b1b0b 33 comments philosophy
- AI research needs a drastic inversion of its epistemology https://ykulbashian.medium.com/ai-research-needs-a-drastic-inversion-in-its-epistemology-7c0409445e9a 44 comments philosophy
- Concepts don’t exist — as objective, phenomenological, cognitive, or neural structures https://ykulbashian.medium.com/concepts-dont-exist-as-objective-phenomenological-cognitive-or-neural-structures-07ced16ecb14 138 comments philosophy
- AGI is Inherently Amoral: Artificial General Intelligence can’t be forcibly aligned to human values https://ykulbashian.medium.com/agi-is-inherently-amoral-2a3fc74d5dc2 184 comments philosophy
- The word “existence” can’t be learned by a classifier: The limits of learning by empirical association https://ykulbashian.medium.com/why-the-word-existence-cant-be-learned-by-a-classifier-a0fb10b2456b 13 comments philosophy
- When a Programmer Holds the Code Hostage: The costs of a policy of appeasement https://ykulbashian.medium.com/when-a-programmer-holds-the-code-hostage-667b65a10a2d 132 comments programming
- A critique of introspection https://ykulbashian.medium.com/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-296c98ac914 11 comments philosophy
- The Birth of Materialism: From ancient animism to substance dualism https://ykulbashian.medium.com/the-birth-of-the-material-world-da3f8cf33b7f 11 comments philosophy
- The Green Swan: On the Usefulness of Logic in AI https://ykulbashian.medium.com/the-green-swan-6d1bc569684f 4 comments artificial