How to Use Pseudo-AI

22 December 2025

Pseudo-AI is garbage and a bubble. And AI content is banned in comments on my blog. Yet people are still gullibly over-trusting AI chatbots, constantly sending me chatbot content and gushing over how brilliant it is and proves whatever they want. I have to explain...

AI Is Garbage and a Bubble (Please Learn This)

29 October 2025

There is no AI. What is being called artificial intelligence and sold as snake oil under that label is actually artificial stupidity. It will destroy your own personal ability to critically reason. It will destroy your company—by reducing, not increasing,...

We Are Probably Not in a Simulation

18 January 2024

‘Simulation Theory’ is popular lately so I am building a new summary piece on it. The following article repeats material elsewhere on my site but in scattered places, and with some new and connecting material, to provide a thorough and current treatment of...

Why Google’s LaMDA Chatbot Isn’t Sentient

25 June 2022

Claire Hall summarizes the case with beautiful succinctness: “Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, was recently suspended after claiming that LaMDA, one of its chatbot systems, was a conscious person with a soul,” because “AI experts have...

The Objective Value Cascade

21 November 2021

In the movie Serenity, the crew of a spaceship far in humanity’s future discover the lost planet Miranda, where they discover a dark secret: that a government drug used on its population to make them docile and compliant, actually removed all desires of any...

The Blondé-Jansen Argument from Consciousness

14 May 2021

I’ve been asked to assess a bizarre argument for God published recently in Metaphysica (“Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from Consciousness,” by Ward Blondé and Ludger Jansen, March 2021). I have already rather...

How Not to Live in Zardoz

30 September 2020

So. You know. Zardoz. That dystopian 70s movie everyone hates because it’s so fucking weird. “It depicts,” as Wikipedia describes it, “a post apocalyptic world where barbarians worship a stone god called ‘Zardoz’ that grants them...

Will AI Be Our Moses?

29 September 2019

Last Friday the 13th I discussed the future of morality with Canadian philosopher Christopher DiCarlo. We advertised the subject with a double question: “Is Society Making Moral Progress and Can We Predict Where It’s Going?” The description was apt:...

How to Be Skeptical of a Technological Singularity

13 May 2013

Chris Hallquist has hosted a guest post on his blog by Luke Muehlhauser, whom some of you might remember as the brilliant and balanced author of Common Sense Atheism and Worldview Naturalism, and who is now executive director of MIRI. As Hallquist describes the post,...

Ten Years to the Robot Apocalypse

16 April 2013

Counting down. Soon we shall all be doomed. Okay, I wrote this on the plane to Alabama about a month ago. It’s been languishing in my queue until now. So step back in time. I’m presently five miles above the earth hurtling through space in a giant metal...