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Social Science in its epistemological context — LessWrong

Dec 5, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

Seeds of Science has kindly published my essay “Prediction and control in natural and social systems”. This short essay : i) address and contextualize the modest predictive success of Social Science and ii) describes what kind of scientific intervention on the human society can be successful.
Arthropod (non) sentience — LessWrong

Nov 25, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

Matthew Adelstein has recently published a post on arthropod (specifically shrimp) sentience. He defends a comparable degree of pain between shrimps and humans (shrimp=20% human). My position is that arthropod consciousness is “too small to measure”, so there is not a conscious self on which pain can be inflicted, and there is no point in any intervention for their welfare, no matter how cheap.
Democracy beyond majoritarianism — LessWrong

Sep 3, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

The classical definition of democracy is “rule of majority with respect to the minority”. But the classics perfectly knew how oppressive can be the 51% of people over the rest and how difficult is to implement “respect”. I simply reject the majoritarian principle: democracy shall be about the rule of all, that is about optimizing the social system for the average of all preferences. More or less hard to implement, that is the ethical principle, and institutions shall be judged by that principle.
Why not parliamentarianism? [book by Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos] — LessWrong

Jul 8, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

“Why not parliamentarianism?” is a short and free booklet (and a follow-up blog) authored by the Brazilian diplomatist Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos. See here his proposal to turn “parlamentarianism” into an EA cause. Ribeiro dos Santos summarizes the previous research on patterns of democracy to make a compelling case for parliamentarian democracy over the presidential alternative.
The Evolution towards the Blank Slate — LessWrong

Jun 10, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

The basis of philosophical modernity is the recognition of the fractured nature of reality, divided between the automatic, irrational and mathematically predictable matter (res extensa), and the conscious mind (res cogitans). Epiphenomenalism bridged the gap by postulating the autonomy and causal priority of matter, while not disputing the ontological primacy of mind. Every cosmovision has its epistemological consequences.
Sensibilidad a los tipos de interés soberanos de la cartera de colateral elegible para los préstamos de política monetaria

May 23, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Arturo Macías

Macías Fernández, Arturo Pablo[1];de la Peña Leal, Ignacio[1]Localización: Documentos ocasionales - Banco de España, ISSN 1696-2222, Nº. 17, 2024Idioma: españolEnlacesTexto completoResumenDesde 2022, los tipos de interés y las rentabilidades de los bonos del Tesoro español se han incrementado de forma acusada.
Super additivity of consciousness — LessWrong

Apr 29, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías

In “Freedom under naturalistic dualism” I have carefully argued that consciousness is radically noumenal, that is, it is the most real (perhaps the only real) thing in the Universe, but also totally impossible to be observed by others (non-phenomenal). In my view this strongly limits our knowledge on sentience, with important consequences for animalism, that I will comment in this post.
Storable Votes with a Pay as you win mechanism: a contribution for institutional design — LessWrong

Mar 11, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías |Brendan Long |Nathan Helm-Burger

I joined the EA Forum in 2022, with a post describing my interests and agenda. I also declared in my first comment that in my view, among the main existential risk bottlenecks for this Dangerous Century, a critical one is institutional stagnation. E.O Wilson famously said: "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology".
Freedom under Naturalistic Dualism — LessWrong

Jun 27, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías |Charlie Steiner

This article discusses the classic issue of free will under naturalistic dualism. The literature on free will (O’Connor, Timothy and Franklin, 2022; Timpe, 2016) revolves around the tension between agency and either physical or metaphysical necessity. Those who consider that free will is a legitimate concept in a physicalist Universe are named “compatibilists”, while those who don’t are named incompatibilists.
No Room for Political Philosophy — LessWrong

Feb 21, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Arturo Macías |Thomas Sepulchre

I was recently asked about my opinion on various schools of Political Philosophy (vg. classical liberalism, neoliberalism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism). I refused to engage with any of them in detail, because my position is that there is no room for different schools of “Political Philosophy”. Ethics and Science (mainly Social Science) are enough to completely determine the best public action.