Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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So, like, some of the people have a PhD in some obscure area of natural language processing, and that, like, you know...
Eight years ago, they were writing a PhD that like two people were going to read about center embeddings in German or whatever, like just really complicated technical aspects of computational linguistics.
And now, like because of this fluke of history, they are at the white hot center of everything that's happening right now.
There are like mathematicians, there are neuroscientists.
It draws on like a pretty wide range of people.
I mean, Anthropic has philosophers on staff whose job it is to like think through the implications of how it is conceiving of ethical behavior.
I did.
Oh, yeah.
Amanda Askell.
I think that in our kind of milieu here, there's a tendency to think like, oh, these are all autistic tech bros.
But they're definitely not all autistic tech bros.
I think there's a tendency for us to write them off as like, they're building these things and not even thinking through the potential implications of this socially and politically and ethically.
But that's all they do is think about this stuff all the time in ways that are often much more sophisticated than the way we think about these things.
There are certainly like some blind spots there.
But the staff philosopher is there to be like, what would it be like in practice to take these kind of different approaches to like moral education?
Like, what if we just teach it a bunch of rules?
You know, the Ten Commandments, like as...
that going to work?
What if we teach it to be like a consequentialist to just like think through the morality of behavior on the basis of its implications?
And what they've kind of settled into is a version of like virtue ethics, which is like you want to like cultivate the old fashioned virtues.
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