Archive - MidWittgenstein

Pain as a Proxy, Potentially Pointless

Why evolution differs a lot from AI when it comes to incentivising things like pain

Nov 22, 2025 • MidWittgenstein

November 2023

Full Non-Indexical Anthropics are Fine

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Time-Inconsistency

Nov 4, 2023 • MidWittgenstein

January 2023

You're Not One "You" - How Decision Theories Are Talking Past Each Other

I think there’s a lot of cross-talk and confusion around how different decision theories approach a class of decision problems, specifically in the…

Jan 7, 2023 • MidWittgenstein

July 2022

Wittgenstein, Rule-following, and Moral inconsistency

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a famous result in philosophy of language tracing back to Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations, and…

Jul 6, 2022 • MidWittgenstein

This is MidWittgenstein, a newsletter about vague thoughts on philosophy.

Jul 6, 2022 • MidWittgenstein

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