"I show that [..] there can be, in a deep and intriguing sense, a fractional (non-integer) number of qualitatively identical phenomenal experiences."

Detect status quo bias in applied ethics by considering parameter changes in both directions. Eliminate status quo bias by thinking of the status quo as a situation that could be reached from an initial position with higher or lower parameter values.

How philosophers could make themselves useful.

Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind, and asks whether we can -- or should -- alter our fundamental nature to solve our intrinsic problems.

Human nature, says Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University philosopher and advocate of transhumanism, is “a work in progress, a half-baked beginning that we can learn to remould in desirable ways."

"FHI studies big picture questions for humanity. We look especially at how anticipated technological developments could affect the human condition, and how we could better understand, evaluate, and respond to radical change."

Popular overviews and scholarly material on everything related to observation selection effects, the anthropic principle, self-locating belief, and associated applications and paradoxes in science and philosophy.

Anthropic bias is a term coined by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, as an expression for the bias arising when "your evidence is biased by observation selection effects".