Mini-Heap

New links… “The current state of education positively requires external pressure on the universities, demonstrating to them a model of inquiry that they have themselves patently failed to uphold” — Justin Smith-Ruiu introduces The Hinternet Foundation and its programs “How we interact with AI systems will shape what they become” — a profile of Amanda Askell, the philosopher teaching Anthropic’s Claude AI to be moral “Noam and I have felt a profound weight regarding the unresolved questions surrounding our past interactions with Epstein. We do not wish to leave this chapter shrouded in ambiguity” — a message from Valéria Chomsky The podcast of the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh is back with its second season — the first episode features Edouard Machery in conversation with David Wallace about philosophy of physics Who has published at least once in each of philosophy’s “top 5” generalist journals? — a list of authors, their articles, and their departments, courtesy of Nick Laskowski “The question [is] whether liberalism can support an ample humanism… whether it can be beautiful and sweet and sustaining… [L]iberals ignore these aesthetic matters at their own peril” — Becca Rothfeld on the aesthetics of politics “Today’s AI systems make the dialectical practice cherished by philosophers readily available” — reflections on Plato, AI, and the value of writing from Elay Shech Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap. Thank you.Previous edition. The post Mini-Heap first appeared on Daily Nous.