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The selfish machine? On the power and limitation of natural selection to understand the development of advanced AI
Some philosophers and machine learning experts have speculated that superintelligent Artificial Intelligences (AIs), if and when they arrive on the...
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Norms for Academic Writing in the Era of Advanced Artificial Intelligence
If and when artificial intelligence systems become superhuman in more aspects of analytic reasoning, this will inevitably have a strong impact on the...
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Symbiosis, not alignment, as the goal for liberal democracies in the transition to artificial general intelligence
A transition to a world with artificial general intelligence (AGI) may occur within the next few decades. This transition may give rise to...
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Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem
In recent years, there has been an intense public debate about whether and, if so, to what extent investments in nuclear energy should be part of...
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Causation as a High-Level Affair
The causal exclusion argument supports the notion that causation should be thought of as a purely low-level affair. Here we argue instead in favour...
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A New Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse
This paper has two aims. First, it points out a crucial difference between the standard argument from fine-tuning for the multiverse and paradigmatic...
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Reconsidering the Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy Charge Against the Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse
Does the claimed fine-tuning of the constants of nature for life give reason to think that there are many other universes in which the constants have...
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Symmetries and the Identity of Physical States
The paper proposes a combined account of identity for physical states and direct empirical significance for symmetries according to which...
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Quantum Theory and ‘Reality’
The main ambition of this work has been to explore the prospects for dissolving the foundational problems of quantum theory by adopting the epistemic...
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Non-locality Reconsidered
Adopting a non-ontic account of quantum states does not address all the challenges raised in the literature concerning the alleged incompatibility...
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Reduction and Explanation
One of the defining aspects of the epistemic conception of quantum states is that it conceives of quantum states as non-descriptive. In this section,...
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Sketch of the Formalism
This chapter reviews the quantum theoretical formalism and sketches its foundational problems. The main function of this chapter is to establish...
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A Look at Quantum Field Theory
The therapeutic approach to quantum theory developed here is meant to be applicable not only to non-relativistic quantum mechanics, but to more...
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Copenhagen Reloaded?
As announced in the introductory chapter, one of the core motivations for the therapeutic approach developed here is to investigate whether the...
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The Charge of Anthropocentrism
Epistemic accounts of quantum states such as quantum Bayesianism and the Rule Perspective are formulated in terms of notions such as ‘agent’,...
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Quantum Probabilities: What Are They?
The previous chapter addressed the challenge of making sense of the notion of a quantum state assignment being performed correctly without thereby...
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Motivating a Therapeutic Approach
As explained in the previous section, the currently most-discussed interpretations of quantum theory can be classified according to how they (try to)...
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Introduction
Quantum theory is perhaps the theory with the greatest predictive and explanatory success in all the history of physics. To name just a few of its...
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Interpretations as Solutions to the Measurement Problem
Interpretations of quantum theory can be usefully categorised according to which moves they make to avoid the measurement problem. The chapter gives...