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How Brexit Created Britain’s New Political Tribes
This is a guest post by James Tilley, a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, about his excellent new book with Sara Hobolt, Tribal…
Should We Care About AI Welfare? (with Robert Long)
We spend a lot of time worrying about what AI might do to us. What about what we might be doing to it?
 • Dan Williams, Henry Shevlin, and Robert Long
1:28:36
On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 3)
The reality of progress, the fragility of civilisation, the left’s role in making the world both better and worse, the case for capitalism, and how to…
 • Dan Williams
Wishful Thinking Is A Myth
How social games, not comforting falsehoods, distort what we believe.
 • Dan Williams
Time To Start Panicking About AI?
Watch now | In this episode, Henry and I finally do something we probably should have done in the first episode: introduce ourselves.
 • Dan Williams
1:08:18
How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion
Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They…
 • Dan Williams
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth)
Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
 • Dan Williams
1:34:12
Conspicuous Cognition
Conspicuous Cognition
Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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