martinkunev

epistemic status: exploratory With a few exceptions, individual actions have negligible large-scale impact, provided everything else remains unchanged. Then, what does it mean to lead by example and is it actually a valuable strategy? My COVID experience In 2021, the french government was seriously restricting the rights of people and...

This is a story of how I struggled to get fast, stable internet connection in France in 2023. I find the story funny and also want to share how complicated and time-consuming the process was, as well as to complain about the utterly inadequate quality of service. I happened to...

epistemic status: my thoughts, backed by some arguments With the advent of deep fakes, it has become very hard to know which image / sound / video is authentic and which is generated by an AI. In this context, people have proposed using software to detect generated content, usually aided...

Disagreements degenerate into debates about word usage way too often and such debates are usually pointless. However, sometimes words can mislead or provoke emotional reactions and in those cases word usage becomes important. This is one of those cases. Many modern AI models, such as those typically used for text...

Here’s the argument that convinced me subjective experience is physical. I don't claim to understand subjective experience, I just see good reasons to believe it's physical rather than non-physical. I'll point out in particular some flaws of panpsychism and dualism. I will be making some assumptions so that I can...

epistemic status: clearing my own confusion I'm going to discuss what we mean by preferences of an intelligent agent and try to make things clearer for myself (and hopefully others). I will also argue that the VNM theorem has limited applicability. What are preferences? When reasoning about agent's behavior, preferences...

epistemic status: my intuition after reading and watching a bunch of stuff; no new information You take a die in your hand. If you throw it, the result will be what people usually call a random number. Let's say you get 2. What do we mean when we say that...