I like going to see movies with my friends. This doesn't require much elaboration. What might is that I continue to go see movies with my friends despite the radically different ways in which my friends happen to enjoy watching movies. I'll separate these movie-watching philosophies into a few broad...
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1103 Eliezer's gung-ho attitude about the realism of the Many Worlds Interpretation always rubbed me the wrong way, especially in the podcast between both him and Scott (around 8:43 in http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/2220). I've seen a similar sentiment expressed before about the MWI sequences. And I say that still believing it to...
I recently read Scott Aaronson's "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791), which has a wealth of interesting thought-food. Having chewed on it for a while, I've been thinking through some of the implications and commitments of a computationalist worldview, which I don't think is terribly controversial around here...