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Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for.
AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.
Left unchecked, this becomes autocomplete for life.
200 years ago, when mechanization was starting to transform the world, the German philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt warned of this very dynamic: To flourish as humans, we have to be self-directed. We are the architects of our own becoming.
But if we offload our thinking—if we let AI automate what we once pursued with intention—is it still our life to live?
To build AI that advances human flourishing, we need technologists who combine technical ability with moral vision.
Silicon Valley once embodied this: Jobs and Wozniak asked what kind of creative life personal computers should enable; ARPANET's pioneers envisioned what kind of connected society networks should foster.
But today, we now see three dominant archetypes:
1. The puzzle-absorbed: Solving technical challenges without reflecting on broader ends
2. The reductionists: Collapsing morality into math
3. The dismissers: Waving off philosophy as irrelevant to progress
All three abdicate the fundamental question: What should we build for?
This is where philosophy is essential. Because the job of a builder isn’t just to ship. It’s to shape a shared world.
We need a new kind of technologist—one who builds with human flourishing in mind. Who resists centralized control. Who strengthens autonomy instead of mining attention.
We call them Philosopher-Builders.
@cosmos_inst exists to train and support them—people who translate deep thinking into systems, institutions, and infrastructure that serve human ends.
If you believe the future of AI should expand human freedom and lift human potential, read the full essay.
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You have achieved the opposite of enlightenment.
You’ve retrogressed from the enlightenment ideal of “Sapere Aude”—having the courage you use your own understanding—to a kind of “self-imposed immaturity.”
30.6.2025
If you can successfully defer all thinking, effort, and doing to the AI, I think technically you have achieved enlightenment.
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The society that separates its philosophers from its entrepreneurs will have its thinking done by the detached and its building done by the short-sighted.
Great words below from @M_Millerman, someone whose courses have helped with my own philosophy education.
27.6.2025
I agree with @mbrendan1 that we need more "philosopher-builders." My philosophy friends will say that this cheapens the notion of a philosopher, perhaps pointing to the difference between contemplation and construction. My builder friends might say philosophy is useless: everyone has "ideas," the only thing that matters is execution. To both groups, I say: the notion of the philosopher-builder does not need to threaten your idea of either the philosopher or the builder. Regard it, instead, as an invitation to find that fruitful area of overlap between idea and execution, theory and practice, vision and implementation. I see so many new powerful coding tools from people like @amasad. It's interesting to ask yourself (as a "philosopher" or "ideas person"), what, if anything, could I use this to build? I have a friend, someone I've been tutoring for years, who thinks, for instance, about how to use the new tools to create visual representations of connections between concepts that occur in the texts we study. You don't have to be curious about or interested in that sort of thing, but some of you have the disposition and aptitude for it, and I encourage you to play around with the possibilities, whatever they happen to be. And if you don't want to build (which is fine), it is at least worthwhile (imo) to think about the significance of what others are building, which you can't do if you're doggedly refusing to pay attention to any of it. If you prefer not to call this "philosophy" at all, in order to preserve the sanctity of the word (oh, you sanctimonious ones!) then that's fine, too. I had to unlearn my own disdain for the "doers" ("oh, Martha, only Mary knew the truth of Christ!") That was a consequence of some quietistic mysticism. Now I believe that an integrated person has to be more than pure intellect and he can't really live a full blown life if he never leaves the night in which all cows are black.
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Everyone's focusing on the big alignment problem in AI (making sure AI in general helps society in general), but not enough people are focusing on the small alignment problem (making sure your AI is working in your interest).
The small alignment problem is just as important.
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