This section provides an overview of my positions on various topics. By “positions,” I mean knowledge or beliefs that I consider likely to be true, though they are more speculative in nature rather than purely factual.

This section is a work in progress, and I will add entries to it whenever I write a relevant article. Furthermore, for most topics, I do not have time to explore every position in detail. As such, I have a strong bias towards the positions I’ve read about most thoroughly.

Philosophy

Metaphilosophy

• Why care about philosophy? A: Philosophical assumptions and better conversations
• What is the aim of philosophy? A: Philosophy as a model

Value Theory

• What do we value? A: Capability to deploy consciousness

Ethics

• What does ought mean? A: Ought as an outdated concept
• What is morality? A: Fictionalism with a bit constructivism
• How shoud one act to be moral? A: Virtue Ethics

Epistemology

• What is knowledge? A: Contextualism

Metaphysics

• Do we have free will? A: No

Aesthetics

• What is love? A: The desire to attain beauty and goodness and preserve them forever

Artificial Intelligence

Road to AGI
Symbolic AI will not lead us to AGI, as it doesn’t seem feasible to write enough rules to cover every possible intelligent behavior pattern. Instead, the current data-driven paradigm using deep learning, in combination with some form of reinforcement learning, will be needed. Deep learning provides the world model, while reinforcement learning allows the agent to act upon the world model and refine it, through a feedback loop, as layed out by active inference.