Should robots be considered as slaves? • On whether AI agents should be granted moral status
Should robots be considered as slaves?
On whether AI agents should be granted moral status
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AI self-awareness is not the real risk • The danger is not consciousness, but self-drive.
AI self-awareness is not the real risk
The danger is not consciousness, but self-drive.
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So, what is morality? • Clear answers to some of moral philosophy’s deepest questions
So, what is morality?
Clear answers to some of moral philosophy’s deepest questions
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The tide and the waves of social change • How social conceptions about justice change over time
The tide and the waves of social change
How social conceptions about justice change over time
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The shocking truth about fairness • The deep origin of fairness norms is bargaining power
The shocking truth about fairness
The deep origin of fairness norms is bargaining power
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What is a just society? • Part 2: everything you wanted to know about debates on social justice in society
What is a just society?
Part 2: everything you wanted to know about debates on social justice in society
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What is a "just" society? • Part 1: simple answers to big questions
What is a "just" society?
Part 1: simple answers to big questions
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How we decide what is fair in everyday life • Equality or total satisfaction?
How we decide what is fair in everyday life
Equality or total satisfaction?
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What is fairness? • The invisible rules that pervade our social interactions
What is fairness?
The invisible rules that pervade our social interactions
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The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers • From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions
The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions
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The game theory of cooperation • Explained simply
The game theory of cooperation
Explained simply
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Cooperation is the scaffolding principle of life • From cells to humans, cooperation is a central principle of evolution
Cooperation is the scaffolding principle of life
From cells to humans, cooperation is a central principle of evolution
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Dekanting moral philosophy • Unconditional moral duties do not follow from pure rationality
Dekanting moral philosophy
Unconditional moral duties do not follow from pure rationality
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Is morality relative? • And if so to what extent
Is morality relative?
And if so to what extent
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A defence of morality as respect for a social contract • The absence of absolute moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"
A defence of morality as respect for a social contract
The absence of absolute moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"
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Morality works without absolute moral truths • Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly
Morality works without absolute moral truths
Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly
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No, religion isn't required for morality • Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines
No, religion isn't required for morality
Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines
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Morality without skyhooks • Shedding light on what morality is and how it works
Morality without skyhooks
Shedding light on what morality is and how it works
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Does the arc of history bend towards democracy? • Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue
Does the arc of history bend towards democracy?
Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue
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What are we really doing on social media? • The motives and strategies that shape our online presence
What are we really doing on social media?
The motives and strategies that shape our online presence
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Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one? • AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment
Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one?
AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment
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Power balance and ideology • Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing
Power balance and ideology
Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing
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The truth about sport • Why we really care about it
The truth about sport
Why we really care about it
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Friendship politics • Everything you have always wanted to know about friendship
Friendship politics
Everything you have always wanted to know about friendship
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Why science is politically disruptive • With a few examples
Why science is politically disruptive
With a few examples
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Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side • The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments
Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side
The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments
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What are the chances you’re right about everything? • The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles
What are the chances you’re right about everything?
The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles
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Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters? • Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left
Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters?
Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left
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Why has the left gentrified? • How shifting social realities and ideological crises reshaped the left
Why has the left gentrified?
How shifting social realities and ideological crises reshaped the left
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The gentrification of the left • And the popularisation of the right in Western countries
The gentrification of the left
And the popularisation of the right in Western countries
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