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I finally created a substack (PsiPhiPi) and wrote an intro talking about my favorite things (link below). So, subscribe or whatever
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Alex Strasser
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Alex Strasser
@AStrasser116
Physics, Philosophy, Religion | PhD student in Materials Science | Blog: https://t.co/YrQOqpyr0k Substack: https://t.co/t53m9Q37Zg
Katılım Mart 2019
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@RalphStefanWeir @ChristophAlin I've been ready and enjoying both your guys' work lately!
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Great to be in Lugano and to catch up with @ChristophAlin whose book on mind-body interaction will come out soon
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@matt_olma That's a good way to put it, the atheist starter pack haha
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Atheism doesn’t have any strict entailments other than disbelief in gods, sure. But it’s hard to deny that there’s an atheism starter pack, eg. physicalism, moral anti-realism, existentialism, verificationism, free-will skepticism..
Yẹmí@KR3Wmatic
Evolution is not atheism. Cosmology is not atheism. Abiogenesis is not atheism. Atheism is the one-word answer, “No,” to the question “Do you believe in any gods?” Nothing else.
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@CharacterGap If I include my parents that skews it a bit and makes AI only average +0.11 more than human rating haha
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@CharacterGap I asked it after a Twitter trend of doing so regarding my moral virtues and it rated me like 95-99 percentile lol.
Actually I asked a couple friends to rate me on 7 intellectual virtues and then chatgpt to do the same, and the results mixed over and under, average AI+0.64
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Question:
Have you used AI for honest feedback you don't think you would get (or get easily) from people in your life?
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I recently finished preparing a 90-minute crash course presentation on [technical] AI governance, where we're at in 2026, and the different ways that things might change in the next few years.
Let me know if you want me to give it sometime or share slides.
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@AndyMasley My 2006 Mazda was like $7-8k when I bought it in 2013 and it's still going strong! It's all I need
(Although it may be time for an update)
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I spent $13k on my car and I do not understand how anyone could want anything better beyond it being a purely positional good
Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior
He is still saying that now yes slowboring.com/p/the-strategi…
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@A_Philosopher Which is something we equally expect to find if the brain and mind closely causally interact, and even more so if the mind emerges from the brain.
What we don't find in the brain are things that have alethic or intentional properties, and we find geometric properties not thoughts
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@AStrasser116 •
We know the location of consciousness, in the brain, and can change what is perceived by stimulating these areas via surgery, electricity, magnetism, drugs, etc. thereby inducing artificial perceptions,
We’ve found the things we’d expect exist to explain consciousness.
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Does the question of the soul ever play a role in people's deconversion stories?
I feel like the soul was something of a purely religious concept that I was never given evidence for in a religious context (then I discovered the philosophy of mind)
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@A_Philosopher But generally you ask "what would I expect to find if this thing exists" - if you find those things good, if not then do you find the things that you would expect if it does not exist? That's not looking good for its existence
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@A_Philosopher I would consider candidate support an argument. Maybe it's a bad argument, but whatever.
By showing evidence that appears inconsistent with that thing, that's it's properties aren't found in reality, are incoherent, or whatever.
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@matt_olma if most people think something has a credence of <10% and I think it has a 50% chance of something, and it is interesting and fundamental to how we think of ourselves as humans or some other part of reality, I'd definitely be arguing for it!
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@matt_olma If somebody's credence distribution is
panpsychism 40%
physicalism 30%
dualism 20%
idealism 10%
1) it seems reasonable to defend the view
2) since the average credence in panpsychism is more like <1%, you're likely to get someone closer to the "correct" credence
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@A_Philosopher A series of statements that support a claim is an argument
By exist, I mean something that is real, ie it is in reality. I wouldn't want to presuppose a particular metaphysical view of reality in defining the meaning of the term exist.
But I can accept your def for a mind
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@AStrasser116 •
A claim is not an argument.
Let’s start with the fundamentals:
When I use the word ‘exist,’ I mean that the thing in question is located somewhere in time and space and it’s made of something.
What does that word mean when you use it?
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This message was brought to you by Susan Wolf (Meaning in Life and Why It Matters)
personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teach…
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It's good to think some about meaning/purpose in life, enough to get you on or ensure you're on the right track, but like the happiness paradox you probably shouldn't focus on seeking it
By loving people & valuable life projects, you'll get meaning and happiness for free
Θωμᾶς del Vasto@Thomasdelvasto_
Sometimes I wonder if the obsessive quest for meaning and purpose is really just a way for us to stay unhappy, despite having great lives
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@AStrasser116 i'm not sure why you would have a problem with them specifically, they seem like a package deal with the entire rest of the spiritual world that you're supposed to believe in, god, angels, demons, etc
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@AStrasser116 And even though companies are responsible there is no legal accountability in terms of prosecutions. Best that families can hope for is money. Capitalism at its finest, “yes negligence killed them, but it’s a massive corporation that did it…”
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