Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil
Philosopher, University of Sussex. Tweets in personal capacity. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Society. Writes at: https://t.co/MniDhzFVe4 danwilliamsphilosophy.com Brighton England Joined November 2010-
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How will AI agents impact democratic values? Democracies are—for independent reasons—already under acute pressure. Since WWII Moore's Law and democratisation went up and to the right in lockstep. Not any more.
Building democratic resilience for the era of AI agents, and for AGI beyond, is an urgent challenge. If you're building civic agents, I'd love to talk. The paper—written with the visionary Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar—is published here: buff.ly/dMM0r7K
The great @A_Marie_sci has started a blog. One of my favourite social scientists. Highly recommend 👇
The great @A_Marie_sci has started a blog. One of my favourite social scientists. Highly recommend 👇
Why is it taboo to publicly express discriminatory or "dangerous" statements? A "common knowledge" approach. New post on substack below, open access: 👇
New >> This is a piece I've been thinking about and working up to for several years. It is, in my opinion, about the most important challenge liberals face: What to do about the politics of immigration?
Just a taste of Musk's own predictive powers (on COVID-19 rates)
Just a taste of Musk's own predictive powers (on COVID-19 rates) https://t.co/QtkXT7nOeB
This podcast should be *a lot* more popular!
This podcast should be *a lot* more popular!
If, like me, you want to defend the basic institutions and ideals of liberal democracy, you’ve got to get out of the habit of explaining away all opposition to them as the result of “propaganda”, “social media”, or “misinformation”. The objective failures, biases, and hypocrisy…
This reasoning would suggest there is no such thing as legislatures either, being political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions. But even if true, nothing follows from it about the degree to which the state should interfere in the market.
This reasoning would suggest there is no such thing as legislatures either, being political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions. But even if true, nothing follows from it about the degree to which the state should interfere in the market.
Great post about progress towards agentic AI not being as fast as some have predicted. And this is pithy: 'As we progress toward an answer to the question “can a machine be intelligent?”, we are learning as much about the question as we are about the answer.'
Great post about progress towards agentic AI not being as fast as some have predicted. And this is pithy: 'As we progress toward an answer to the question “can a machine be intelligent?”, we are learning as much about the question as we are about the answer.'
Once upon a time, the speculation was that GPT-5 would be an "agentic AI", capable of pursuing long-term goals. But true agents now look farther away than they did in early 2024! My latest post (link in 🧵) presents the evidence.
I published an essay for my newsletter every week this summer, and, looking back, I think this was the best one (link in next tweet). 🧵
Universities have writing centers but no public speaking centers. We just throw academics on stage and hope for the best. New post breaks down 10 ways to connect with your audience and actually enjoy giving talks (yes, it's possible).
Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom…
📢 New OA publication with @lutzid 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships 👇1/4
Very happy to share that our paper “A Wittgensteinian take on moral vs. deep disagreements” has been accepted for publication in Synthese! @Nefvil It will appear in the special issue “Wittgenstein and moral deep disagreements” @vlc_lab @FiloLab_UGR
The first major output of the @TempletonWorld @ArcIntrepid adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now on @arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555

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