Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

What I think is that the prospects are not good for extending “cannot implies no ought” to “can hardly implies no ought.” The former derives from a seemingly clear cut and incontestable principle, that it makes no sense to moral…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think you’re right. My experience talking to chatbots in an attempt to seek help with minor problems suggests people are irreplaceable LikeLike

[…] Having reread David Estlund’s “Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy” (2011) – I had read it or similar material from Estlund years ago – I have some thoughts. Here is one. (For a variety of more shooting-fr…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan, there’s a simple solution to all these problems you mention. Just use the flowchart. Everyone should just use the flowchart. LikeLiked by 1 person

I’m very skeptical of these technologies. I don’t dispute that they are technically impressive. My objection is that news stories (and likely, scientific journal articles) seriously underplay the differences between technical laboratory fin…

[…] those by Nick Gillespie at Reason, David Gordon, IES-Europe, David Henderson, Timothy Sandefur, Irfan Khawaja, and Nicolas Capaldi (from Tibor’s festschrift, more about which later). […] LikeLike

~AI Facilitating Mind-Reading This could become a way for paralyzed people to communicate. It might become a way for the government to get information from people (and obviate attempts to get information by torture). At present the system requires not only our general knowledge of where things are typically thought in the brain, but knowledge…

In reply to butimbeautiful. I was pretty unimpressed with it, but give it a year, and it will be able to do a lot more. It’s something I have to pay close attention to in my field. Medical billing in the American context is an extremely complicat…