Hacker News with Generative AI: Philosophy

Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org)
The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about those programs, based on different values. The free software movement campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we do not agree with open source, and do not use that term.
Free Software, Open Source, Philosophy, Ethics
20 points by rglover 1 day ago | 6 comments
The Conundrum of Life's Origin (nautil.us)
How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma
Biology, Science, Philosophy
70 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 55 comments
Broken Belief (pastebin.com)
Beliefs, Philosophy, Writing
8 points by johnkhan 3 days ago | 1 comments
The Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (reddit.com)
I'm considering doing a podcast episode on the philosophical themes within the anime versions of Ghost in the Shell. Could extend to the manga, though I haven't read them yet.
Anime, Philosophy, Podcasts
6 points by pizza 6 days ago | 0 comments
An introduction to Plato's Republic (1981) (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.
Philosophy, Classics, Books, Public Domain, Restoration
4 points by synthetictask 10 days ago | 0 comments
Do the obvious next thing (sonyasupposedly.com)
Letting gravity be my guide, like water.
Life Advice, Philosophy, Metaphor
4 points by exolymph 10 days ago | 1 comments
4chan became the home of the elite reader (newstatesman.com)
It’s a Friday in early January and someone on 4chan has invented a new philosophical doctrine: “esoteric Kantianism”. “You must not take Kant’s words at face value,” the anonymous user warns – readers who do so will only take away shallow insights about the half-blind “normie mind”. “You must read between the lines.”
Online Communities, Philosophy, Internet Culture
22 points by New_Statesman 12 days ago | 6 comments
Fascists and Rakes (2014) (reasonableapproximation.net)
It feels like most people have a moral intuition along the lines of "you should let people do what they want, unless they're hurting other people".
Politics, Philosophy, Ethics
46 points by martin-t 12 days ago | 60 comments
A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf] (paulrcohen.github.io)
Polymathy, Philosophy, Academia, History
144 points by mirawelner 13 days ago | 73 comments
"Oh, Jean Baudrillard, how the rock-kickers sneered at you back in the day." (mastodon.social)
Philosophy, Social Commentary, History
4 points by pavel_lishin 14 days ago | 0 comments
The Joy of Under-Engineering (hamvocke.com)
Software Engineering, Philosophy, Humor
23 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | 3 comments
AI #97: 4 (thezvi.substack.com)
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope for peace.
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Rationalism
3 points by paulpauper 15 days ago | 0 comments
The Battlefield Is Everywhere (doomsdaymachines.net)
The “Proximity Argument,” the revolution in our planetary spatial relations, is forceful enough intellectually to match the horrendous situation. “Are we in a biological crisis of existence?” Yes! “How can we prove that?” Because there are no longer any safe interiors in which our babies can survive the next war. The weapons are up. Reproduction will be impossible. The battlefield is everywhere. Therefore World War III is treason — treason to our species, to say nothing of our nations.
War, Philosophy, Environment, Reproduction
5 points by musha68k 15 days ago | 0 comments
Spirituality Is Secure Attachment with Reality (intimatemirror.substack.com)
This series emerges from conversations with friends and Claude AI, drawing deeply from the wisdom of David J Temple's CosmoErotic Humanism, Rob Burbea's Soulmaking Dharma, Steve March's Aletheia Unfolding, Daniel P Brown's attachment theory work, John Churchill's Planetary Dharma, and many insights from Jill Nephew. While their teachings light the path, any limitations in expressing their ideas are my own.
Spirituality, Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
34 points by mwfogleman 16 days ago | 24 comments
Glue Work Considered Harmful (seangoedecke.com)
Software Development, Philosophy, Work Culture
64 points by polyphilz 16 days ago | 48 comments
Master suppression techniques (wikipedia.org)
The master suppression techniques is a framework articulated in 1945 by the Norwegian psychologist and philosopher Ingjald Nissen.[1] These techniques identified by Nissen are ways to indirectly suppress and humiliate opponents.
Psychology, Philosophy, History
17 points by yamrzou 16 days ago | 2 comments
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out (nothinghuman.substack.com)
Thinking about Nassim Nicholas Taleb always makes me sad. My brother handed me a copy of The Black Swan twelve years ago and it was a revelation, it blew my intellectual world open - Taleb seemed the perfect embodiment of the gentleman-scholar I’d always hoped to become. He saw through the pseudo-intellectual bullshit drowning the world and was working on the most fundamental questions, working at whatever hours he felt like, flaneuring around cities, reading classics and proving math theorems.
Philosophy, Writing, Intellectualism
33 points by ivee 17 days ago | 18 comments
Process Philosophy (wikipedia.org)
Philosophy, Process, Metaphysics
7 points by axiologist 17 days ago | 0 comments
Bertrand Russell on Zionism [video] (youtube.com)
Bertrand Russell, Zionism, Philosophy, History, Video
39 points by jim_inont 18 days ago | 29 comments
Why Spinoza still matters (2016) (aeon.co)
In July 1656, the 23-year-old Bento de Spinoza was excommunicated from the Portuguese-Jewish congregation of Amsterdam. It was the harshest punishment of herem (ban) ever issued by that community.
Philosophy, History, Judaism
5 points by axiologist 18 days ago | 0 comments
What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996) (annakaharris.com)
Let us consider an information-processing system that is almost maximally simple: a thermostat.
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Systems Thinking
72 points by optimalsolver 19 days ago | 80 comments
Behaviorist Genie (arbital.com)
AI, Philosophy, Behavioral Economics
10 points by Bluestein 22 days ago | 1 comments
Does Morality Do Us Any Good? (newyorker.com)
Nothing kills your appetite, they say, like discovering how the sausage is made. In the realm of superhero cinema, origin stories explain our protagonist’s driving motivations. But in the realm of faith and values? I stopped believing everything the tabloids said after I went on a school trip to the offices of my local paper. Others have grown disillusioned once they scrutinized the early history of their religion as historians, not as adherents.
Morality, Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, Culture
11 points by vo2maxer 22 days ago | 11 comments
J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment" (aeon.co)
At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking.
History, Political Science, Philosophy
43 points by pepys 22 days ago | 92 comments
The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe (nautil.us)
Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions.
Science, Philosophy, Space, Cosmology, Life
24 points by dnetesn 27 days ago | 8 comments
AI Is the Black Mirror (nautil.us)
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Philosophy, Speculative Fiction
75 points by Jun8 27 days ago | 106 comments
You should be talking with GPT about philosophy (theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com)
Generative AI, Philosophy
11 points by surprisetalk 30 days ago | 2 comments
My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher (nautil.us)
To do philosophy, you don’t need expensive labs or equipment. You don’t need a huge team. You can do it all by yourself. The downside is that philosophers are often lonely. Reading in solitude while wrestling with your own thoughts is difficult. We do discuss and debate our ideas with others at conferences and symposia, but these peers, invaluable as they are, are bounded by many of the same constraints we are, living and thinking in our own brief historical moment.
Philosophy, Solitude, Academia
38 points by HR01 31 days ago | 8 comments
AI Is the Black Mirror (nautil.us)
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Ethics
7 points by dnetesn 31 days ago | 0 comments
Why probability probably doesn't exist (but it is useful to act like it does) (nature.com)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
Philosophy, Science, Probability, Statistics
12 points by orcul 31 days ago | 2 comments