User:Brian Tomasik

I'm a cofounder of and researcher at the Foundational Research Institute. I also created the website Essays On Reducing Suffering.

I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2009, where I studied computer science, mathematics, statistics, and economics and published a few papers on machine learning and international trade. From 2009-2013, I worked in the relevance division of the Bing search engine at Microsoft. I built end-to-end three of Bing's production ranking models, which served over 5 billion searches on Bing and Yahoo every month.

I'm currently located near Albany, New York, USA. Feel free to get in touch using the contact information on my personal home page.

Articles I created

 * Animal welfare and rights in China
 * Conciliationism
 * Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
 * Consciousness and the Brain
 * Fish welfare at slaughter
 * Higher-order theories of consciousness
 * Humane Slaughter Association
 * Insect euthanasia
 * Joshua Greene (psychologist)
 * March of the Machines
 * Measure problem (cosmology)
 * Pest insect population dynamics
 * Phenomenal concept strategy
 * Radical flank effect
 * Welfare of farmed insects
 * Zen and the Art of Consciousness

View statistics for all pages at once can be seen here using Vipul Naik's tool.

Article subsections where I was the majority author

 * In African philosophy:
 * African ethics
 * In Artificial intelligence (video games):
 * Uses of AI in games beyond NPCs
 * In Biological basis of love:
 * Cortisol
 * Love and motivation
 * In Boltzmann brain:
 * Proposed resolutions
 * In Chemistry (relationship):
 * Importance to relationship satisfaction
 * In Cockroach:
 * Social behavior
 * In Electrical brain stimulation:
 * Effects
 * In Fish farming:
 * Slaughter methods
 * French kiss:
 * Disease risks
 * In Hard landscape materials:
 * Advantages
 * In Intentional stance:
 * Neural evidence
 * Phenomenal stance
 * In Inter-paradigm debate in international relations theory:
 * Criticism
 * In Knowledge by acquaintance:
 * Acquaintance hypothesis
 * In Lac:
 * Harvesting
 * Production levels
 * In Mind uploading:
 * Ethical and legal implications
 * Political and economic implications
 * Emulation timelines and AI risk
 * In Pain in invertebrates:
 * Non-stereotyped behavior
 * Social interaction
 * In Prisoner's dilemma:
 * Zero-determinant strategies
 * In Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons:
 * History
 * Historical significance
 * Limitations
 * In Roadkill:
 * Insects
 * In Recursive self-improvement
 * Hard vs. soft takeoff
 * In Rights issue:
 * Over‐subscription privilege
 * Stock dilution
 * Tax treatment
 * In Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal:
 * SIA's own doomsday argument
 * In Thinking about Consciousness:
 * Reaction
 * In True Names:
 * Afterword
 * In Two-dimensionalism:
 * In philosophy of mind
 * In Unmanned aerial vehicle:
 * Animal rights
 * In War:
 * System-level theories
 * Societal-level theories
 * Individual-level theories
 * In What Is it Like to Be a Bat?:
 * Criticisms

Articles where I contributed at least one citation (besides previously mentioned)

 * Cybernetic revolt
 * David Pearce (philosopher)
 * Differential technological development
 * Error-related negativity
 * Foie gras
 * Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
 * Global catastrophic risks (nuclear war)
 * Grandfather paradox
 * Hard problem of consciousness
 * Jill Robinson
 * Liberal arts college
 * Machine ethics
 * Our Final Invention
 * Penis fencing
 * Pest control
 * Pharmaceutical glaze
 * Philosophical zombie
 * Qualia
 * Self-Sampling Assumption
 * Shellac
 * Technological singularity
 * Theory of International Politics
 * Unmanned aerial vehicle
 * Westermarck effect
 * Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
 * Wild animal suffering
 * Zero moment point

Full list of contributions

 * Special:Contributions/Brian_Tomasik

Pages I'd like to see created, improved, or refined

 * User:Brian Tomasik/Pages to create or improve