Phil · Pillar
Theoretical Philosophies
Mind, identity, value, and the long argument about what we owe future minds.
The hard problem of consciousness — David Chalmers
Why explaining function may leave experience unexplained — the philosophical wedge still driving lab and AI debates.
Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
The book that mainstreamed control problems, orthogality, and decisive strategic advantage for a generation of SI thinkers.
The extended mind — Clark & Chalmers
If a notebook can be part of cognition, what happens when the notebook is a cortex implant or a cloud model?
AGI ruin arguments — Eliezer Yudkowsky
A maximalist alignment pessimism that shaped the rationalist SI community — sharp, contested, impossible to ignore historically.