1/ Thread for exciting philosophy being done outside university philosophy departments. Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Mill, Frege, Ramsey, and Turing all worked outside phil academia. Here are some contemporary examples...
2/ David Deutsch: foundations of Quantum computation, Many Worlds, Fabric of Reality, Beginning of Infinity, Constructor Theory
3/ Paul Christiano: AI Safety (IDA, Debate), assigning probabilities to FOL and foundations of game theory, certificates of impact.
arxiv.org/pdf/1810.08575
arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899
intelligence.org/files/Non-Omni…
sideways-view.com
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yNn2o3kE…
arxiv.org/pdf/1810.08575
arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899
intelligence.org/files/Non-Omni…
sideways-view.com
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yNn2o3kE…
4/ Glen Weyl: Radical Markets, RadicalxChange project, A flexible design for funding public goods (also include Etherium creator and thinker Vitalik Buterin)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
5/ Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
6/ Gary Drescher: The Good and the Real
7/ MIRI: Logical Induction, Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma, Functional decision theory (related to Wei Dai's awesome UDT).
arxiv.org/abs/1609.03543
arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5577
arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060
arxiv.org/abs/1609.03543
arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5577
arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060
8/ Probabilistic Models of Cognition (Goodman et al): probmods.org. Also Pinker on cog sci: Lang Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Stuff of Thought, Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
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