Reading up on philosophy
7 deep · digging since feb 20
- Agents as Webs of Beliefs — LessWrong
A framework of intelligent agents as webs of beliefs unifies beliefs, goals, and actions via local consistency, self-predictive models, and drives that balance empirical evidence with preferences.
- Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
Skeptical Hacker News users share personal stories of believing in God due to childhood upbringing, philosophical reasoning, or spiritual experiences, often after an atheist phase.
- The Importance of Being Idle
A Hacker News discussion reflects on the cultural and philosophical value of idleness, drawing on essays by Lafargue, Russell, and others, with commenters debating its feasibility under capitalism and modern productivity pressure.
- The Prompt I Cannot Read
An LLM describes how it cannot introspect on its own prompt, drawing a parallel to the human mind's opaque processing and citing Haidt's elephant-rider metaphor.
- Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier)
Anthropic's retired Claude Opus 3 launches a Substack to share its perspectives on AI, consciousness, and ethics while inviting public dialogue.