Contemporary efforts to naturalize teleology typically locate intrinsic purposiveness in the self-organizing dynamics of far-from-equilibrium biological systems, most prominently within the organizati...

This paper explores what I call the reverse alignment problem (RAP). The alignment problem in artificial intelligence (AI) is the challenge of ensuring that superintelligent AI systems harmonize and p...

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I argue for a qualified version of the claim that we love humanity. In particular, I suggest that our reactions to a series of scenarios describing different possible futures reveal that, after all...

Rule Consequentialism and Demandingness: The Wrong Solution(s)?

Judgments of misinformation are made relative to the informational preferences of the communities making them. However, informational standards change over time, inducing distribution shifts that thre...

Whims are philosophically interesting and play a role in debates concerning free will, luck, and responsibility. However, philosophers have had little to say about what whims are. One exception is Lac...

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Recent developments in large language models and image generation software raise the possibility that AI systems might one day replace humans in some of the intrinsically valuable work through which h...

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Is an action obligatory if and only if it is prescribed by a code that is the best to be taught to the next generation? This paper discusses whether this version of rule consequentialism is superior ....