Lectures & Interviews on Philosophy, Religion & Technology
AI welfare necessitates a rigorous philosophical framework to distinguish between abstract models and concrete, session-based instances. While computational theories of consciousness—such as Global Workspace Theory—offer a lens for evaluating AI sentience, they often overlook the potential requirement for biological su...
America has transitioned from a bastion of equality to a society that prioritizes unequal greatness, fundamentally altering its democratic identity. While egalitarian mores once fostered peaceful habits, they now stifle the ambitious, leading to a hyper-competitive meritocracy that extinguishes imagination through a "c...
Modern technological ambitions, such as colonizing Mars or developing advanced AI, often lack the civilizational greatness found in the works of Goethe or Beethoven because they prioritize mere species survival and "wretched contentment" over existential meaning. These projects reflect a low-minded, technocratic faith ...
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