AI Company Philosophy

I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company

Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what the means. Paul Graham, the legendary tech investor, studied philosophy as a college student, which seemed “an impressively impractical thing to do,” as he later wrote.

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

“I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.” The people who actually want AI to replace humanity We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.

reMarkable Paper Pure review: Great hardware held back by bad philosophy

reMarkable Paper Pure review: Great hardware held back by bad philosophy There's a lot riding on reMarkable's Paper Pure, a device that has to be a lot of things to a lot of people. It's got to be a worthy replacement to 2020's reMarkable 2, the e-paper slate that made the company a household name.

Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers

On its surface, the national revolt against data centers seems simple: They are a nuisance, and people do not want them in their proverbial backyards. But I haven’t been able to let go of the idea that there must be something much deeper driving the backlash against them, and few other subjects have confounded me more than trying to figure out what to think about it. Americans don’t know how to fight AI.

UK’s Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children’s mental health

Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'

Twenty years ago, a few weeks into my job at Google, I wrote a post about 20% time.1 For anyone who never ran into it: 20% time was Google’s policy of letting engineers spend a day a week, a fifth of their time, on a project of their own choosing. The argument in that post was that you couldn’t just copy it. 20% time worked because of the environment around it, not because someone wrote “20%” in a handbook.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft...

The book fueling a movement against screens in schools

Parents hand out copies of the book at school board meetings. Administrators are relying on it for guidance on how to reduce the use of technology in their schools. Actor Hugh Grant promoted it and wrote a blurb for the cover.

The rise of beta moms: Why modern mothers are choosing calm over control

The world revolves around this word. It’s not really just a word though, is it? From Deewar’s famous dialogue: “Mere paas Maa hai” to the psychology of Sigmund Freud, mothers don’t just run the world; the world depends on them.

The Frame Problem

The Frame Problem To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number of intuitively obvious non-effects. But to many philosophers, the AI researchers' frame problem is suggestive of wider epistemological issues. Is it possible, in principle, to limit the scope of the reasoning required to derive the consequences of an action?