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A place of digressions and explorations on philosophy, tech, games, and the universe. Click to read Polytropolis, by Henry Shevlin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Contra Chiang on machine consciousness
See also Bentham's Bulldog, "Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Consciousness", and Rob Wiblin, "Ted Chiang is Wildly Overconfident About AI Consciousness."Ernst Haeckel, "Hexacoralla," Kunstformen der Natur (1904)Ted Chiang is one of my favourite authors. I wa
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The House Elf Problem
Illustration of the Golem by Mikoláš Aleš from Old Czech Legends (Public Domain)Science fiction is full of portrayals of intelligent AIs living more or less peacefully alongside humans. Across these works, we see a wide variety of power relations operativ
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Henry Shevlin Substack
Philosopher of mind and AI ethicist. I write about machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, video games, the Fermi paradox, fan-fiction, and whatever else catches my attention. Congenital AI optimist. Views my own.
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Behaviourism's Revenge
L'Origine de la sculpture, ou Pygmalion priant Vénus d'animer sa statue. Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786).Note to readers: Welcome to Polytropolis, a new blog about AI, consciousness, ethics, games, technology, and whatever else catches my attention. I'm Hen
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