A simple analogy for superalignment: In traditional machine learning (ML), humans supervise AI systems weaker than themselves (left). To align superintelligence, humans will instead need to supervise AI systems smarter than them (center). We cannot directly study this problem today, but we can study a simple analogy: can small models supervise larger models (right)? (Open … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
The Refutation of Digital Idealism: A Micro-Study in Kantian Futurism.
An enantiomorph of sentence 1 (Author’s photograph, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Refutation of Digital Idealism: A Micro-Study in Kantian Futurism 1. Introduction As any Kantian … [continue reading]
AI + Reproducibility + Peer Review = A Perfect Storm in Science.
(Ball, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. AI + Reproducibility + Peer Review = A Perfect Storm in Science Contemporary science is a juggernaut, but also multiply troubled. … [continue reading]
The Internal Structure of Reading and the Internal Structure of Philosophizing.
“A Philosopher Reading,” by a follower of David Teniers the Younger, 1610-1690 (Wikimedia Commons, 2024) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Internal Structure of Reading and the Internal … [continue reading]
What Good is Philosophy? My Answer.
(Kyiv Mohyla Academy, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. What Good is Philosophy? My Answer. As an independent philosopher, resolute generalist, and a card-carrying nemo, no-name, or nobody … [continue reading]
Why Do Professional Academic Philosophers Ignore the Worldwide Problem of Guns and Gun Violence?
(NYT, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Why Do Professional Academic Philosophers Ignore the Worldwide Problem of Guns and Gun Violence? By the problem of guns and gun … [continue reading]
Beyond The Spirituality-Industrial Complex.
(Motski, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Religion and Morality 3. The New Apocalypse, The Spirituality-Industrial Complex, The Highest Good, and Morality 4. There’s Always a Constructive, Enabling Alternative To Every Social-Institutional Structure That’s Destructive and Deforming, Even If That Social Institution Seems To Be Eternal or Written-in-Stone 5. Realistically Optimist Dignitarian Humanism as … [continue reading]
The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas.
(Spicer and Roulet, 2014a) You can download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas What is the professional academic system of peer review? Here’s … [continue reading]
“My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison.
“First Amendment,” by C.D. Arthur, 2023 (McCordick, 2023: p. 35) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. “My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison You, the reader of … [continue reading]
Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility.
(Baker, 2016) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility In their important essay, “From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility,” Joseph Wayne Smith and … [continue reading]