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Eric Schwitzgebel
Personal blog · faculty.ucr.eduphilosophyscience
Eric Schwitzgebel's personal blog at faculty.ucr.edu covers philosophy and science. Since 2010, 60 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2015)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-08-10
- If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-07-17
- /~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/USAconscious.htm3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-03
- American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-06
- /~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140721.htm2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-04
- /~legneref/bronze/climate.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-20
- /~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140721.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-12
- /~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140130a.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-18
- In Defense of Parenthood: new study shows children bring happiness [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
- Introduction to Social Network Methods2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-02
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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on “100 years of whatever this will be”Submitted If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014) as a story · 184 points
HN discussion"And speaking statistically, research shows that parents are no more happy than are those who are not parents." "Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. Parents also are happier du…
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on “Hunting Down My Son's Killer”Submitted If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2015) as a story · 56 points
HN discussionGiven that actual professors of ethics, professional ethicists, are no more moral than other professors this would be nothing but a waste of time. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/PowerReas... The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason, Joshua Rust, Eric Schwitzgebel Professional ethicists behave no morally better, on average, than do other professors. At least that’s what we have foun…
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on “Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team”Submitted American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005) as a story · 40 points
HN discussionFortunately, we have a chatbot that can simulate him perfectly: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/GPT-3-Den...
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on “Daniel Dennett has died”Submitted Assembly Theory of Time as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe fact that blind people make decisions based on active echolocation without realizing that's what they're doing is IMO one of the great arguments against the idea that we're particularly knowledgeable about our own conscious thought processes. How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation by Eric Schwitzgebel and Michael S. Gordon http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/…
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on “Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound”Submitted Do ethicists steal more books? (2009) [pdf] as a story · 35 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy this essay by Eric Schwitzgebel: _If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious_ http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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on “Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people”Submitted How Well Do We Know Our Conscious Experience? The Case of Echolocation (2000) as a story · 19 points
HN discussion> I simply assume that I know the inner workings of my own mind better than anybody else can. I think this is a very bad assumption; Eric Schwitzgebel has spent a lot of his career making the case that it is a bad assumption: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/ a good example paper: Knowing Your Own Beliefs (2011) , http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/KnowOwnBel.h...
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on “The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective”Submitted Philosophers’ Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction Recommendations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsee also this 2014 article on consciousness in 'rather dumb group entities' including 'antheads' https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious...
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on “An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)”Submitted Pholosophers suggest Sci-Fi books as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"If Materialism is true, the United States is likely conscious." http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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on “●●|●●●●●|●●|●”Submitted Introduction to Social Network Methods as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTangentially, biological systematists (aka Taxonomists by some) take the cake: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html .
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on “Things Unexpectedly Named After People”Submitted If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious as a story · 2 points
HN discussionwell, if you follow the point of view of materialists, you have to accept that the united states of america are a living, conscious, entity, of which you (maybe) are a part. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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on “Brian Eno: We've been living happily with AI for thousands of years”Submitted Big List of Philosophers' Science Fiction Recommendations as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If asked to list three beliefs that matter to me, I might offer the following: > 1. that my children’s happiness is far more important than their academic or financial success; > 2. that women and men are equally moral and equally intelligent; > 3. that most people are basically good at heart. > I care that I believe these things. I want to be the kind of person who believes such things. I feel as though if I didn…
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on “Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?”Submitted Creating a Large Language Model of a Philosopher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPaper investigating whether ethicists are more ethical: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/BehEth-14...
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on “The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)”Submitted American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (1998?) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEric Schwitzgebel specializes in papers about studies about this: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/ The citations will probably be helpful for you to find the studies and similar ones. My favorites: Why did we think we dreamed in black and white? http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/DreamB&W.htm How well do we know our own conscious experience? The case of human echolocation. http://www.faculty.ucr.ed…
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on “A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single hair”Submitted Philosophers’ Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction Recommendations [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"The number of people who believe we haven't visited the moon is growing year over year." It took a lot of evidence to convince anyone that Vikings visited America before Columbus. There is at least a small amount of evidence to suggest that crossings and even a trickle of trade pre-dated the Vikings: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm Other circumstantial evidence includes architecture and burial…
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on “I’m an Anti-Braker”Submitted In Defense of Parenthood: new study shows children bring happiness [pdf] as a story · 2 points
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