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← There are no moral phenomena, only moral interpretations of phenomena

17 connected korrents · 13 moments from 25 Sept 2015 to 3 Oct 2026.

Everything filed under AI sentience AI sentience Everything filed under writing writing Everything filed under AI writing AI writing Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: There are no moral phenomena, only moral interpretations of phenomena There are no moral phenomena, only moralinterpretations of phenomena FN Friedrich Nietzsche — holds since c. 1886 — tap for who they are Same subject: Something cannot be a moral patient if it does not feel. — tap to centre the map on it Something cannot be a moral patientif it does not feel. Last stated a month ago 26 Sept 2026 JH Joseph Henrich — holds since 2026-09-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: No moral virtue arises in us by nature — tap to centre the map on it No moral virtue arises in us bynature AR Aristotle — holds since c. 367–322 BCE — tap for who they are Same subject: Explaining evolution is not advocating a morality based on it — tap to centre the map on it Explaining evolution is notadvocating a morality based on it RD Richard Dawkins — holds since c. 1976–1989 — tap for who they are Same subject: No moral justification can refuse to take a being's suffering into account — tap to centre the map on it No moral justification can refuse totake a being's suffering intoaccount PS Peter Singer — holds since c. 1975 — tap for who they are Same subject: Entities that cannot suffer, however intelligent, are not moral subjects — tap to centre the map on it Entities that cannot suffer, howeverintelligent, are not moral subjects Last stated 2 months ago 26 Aug 2026 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: Competent information processing and sentience are wholly unrelated — tap to centre the map on it Competent information processing andsentience are wholly unrelated Last stated 4 weeks ago 3 Oct 2026 FC François Chollet — holds since 2026-10-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: Philosophy is prose, not poetry. — tap to centre the map on it Philosophy is prose, not poetry. Last stated 10 months ago 27 Dec 2025 KS Kieran Setiya — holds since 2025-12-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: Students treat the relativity of truth as a moral postulate of a free society, not a theoretical insight — tap to centre the map on it Students treat the relativity oftruth as a moral postulate of a freesociety, not a theoretical insight AB Allan Bloom — holds since c. 1987 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI sentience is a category error, and the chances of AIs being sentient are vanishingly small. — tap to centre the map on it AI sentience is a category error,and the chances of AIs beingsentient are vanishingly small. Last stated 2 months ago 31 Aug 2026 TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing. — tap to centre the map on it An AI's sympathy and a friend's arenot the same act: one is a learnedpattern about what to say, the otherrests on having felt the thing. Last stated 3 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: As we redesign life with new technologies, we should weigh the welfare of all sentient beings, not just humans — tap to centre the map on it As we redesign life with newtechnologies, we should weigh thewelfare of all sentient beings, notjust humans Last stated 11 years ago 25 Sept 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-09-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: A browser that answers with generated prose instead of links is not a web browser but an anti-web browser, and it hides that substitution from the person using it. — tap to centre the map on it A browser that answers withgenerated prose instead of links isnot a web browser but an anti-webbrowser, and it hides thatsubstitution from the person usingit. Last stated a year ago 22 Oct 2025 AD Anil Dash — holds since 2025-10-22 — tap for who they are Same subject: A first draft is necessarily bad, and that is exactly why one has to be written. — tap to centre the map on it A first draft is necessarily bad,and that is exactly why one has tobe written. Last stated 4 years ago 12 Oct 2022 AK Austin Kleon — holds since 2022-10-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on. — tap to centre the map on it A first draft should not be gradedgood or bad; it is only the materialthat taste then gets to act on. Last stated 3 months ago 6 Aug 2026 GS George Saunders — holds since 2026-08-06 — tap for who they are Same subject: A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy. — tap to centre the map on it A CEO who sends out an AI-writtenstrategy memo is modelling that itis fine to outsource thinking andstrategy. Last stated a month ago 27 Sept 2026 MG Molly Graham — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it A stream of AI-written papers withany error rate at all becomesinsufferable, because finding theerror costs more than the paper isworth even at ninety-nine percent. Last stated 4 months ago 30 Jun 2026 GS Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build. — tap to centre the map on it AI can now produce in minutes workthat used to take weeks to build. Last stated 5 months ago 26 May 2026 CB Carlos Alexandro Becker — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
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At the centre There are no moral phenomena, only moral interpretations of phenomena Last stated c. 1886 Holds Friedrich Nietzsche Read this korrent →