This page consists of links to Internet Archive copies of most of the contents of a website by Paul Almond 
that is now offline because it's not maintained. Several of these essays are ingeniously creative, and while I disagree with Almond on some points, I think his writings should not be lost.
Almond's home page, paul-almond.com, contains helpful summaries of each article. Most articles have a valid version on Internet Archive from around 2012 or earlier, though a few articles weren't preserved before the site went offline.
Contents
AI
- A Refutation of Penrose's Godel-Turing Proof that Computational Artificial Intelligence is Impossible
- Getting Darwinian Evolution to Work
- Getting Darwinian Evolution to Work - Part 2
- How AI Would Work
- Downward Transfer of Probabilities in AI
- Planning as Modelling in AI
- Programming of Planning As Modelling in AI
- Resolving the Horizon Problem in Planning As Modelling
- Planning As Modelling in AI: A Revised Description
- Planning As Modelling in AI: A New Version
- A Proposal for General AI Modeling
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 1: The Modeling System
- An Attempt to Generalize AI - Part 2: Planning and Actions
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 3: Forgetting
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 4: Modeling Efficiency
- An Attempt to Generalize AI - Part 5: A Completely Probabilistic Hierarchy
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 6: Measuring Relevance
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 7: A Basic, Exploratory Relevance Process
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 8: Forgetting as Part of the Exploratory Relevance Process
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 9: Improving the Exploratory Relevance Process
- An Attempt to Generalize AI - Part 10: Pattern Instance Construction Alternatives
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 11: Explaining Dreaming
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 12: Pattern Relevance
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 13: Reflexive Outputs
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 14: Mind Control Speculation
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 15: A Complete Description
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 16: Speculation on Autism
- An Attempt to Generalize AI - Part 17: What I'm Thinking
- An Attempt to Generalize AI - Part 18: A Brief Summary So Far
- An Attempt to Generalize AI Part 19: Wish-Fulfillment in Action Selection
Atheism
- Craig is using Hilbert’s hotel as a flawed intuition pump.
- The “I used to be an atheist” Claim
- On Double Standards About Causes in Religious Apologetics
- There is no god, and yes I can say that.
- Is it fair for God to reward belief and punish disbelief?
- Against the Supernatural as a Profound Idea
- The Theistic Apologist's Worst Nightmare: A Reality Where Time Is Unimportant
- A Refutation of Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument - and why it even suggests a disproof of God
- Can God Exist Outside Space-Time?
- Against the Idea that Religious Belief is Needed to Have Ethics
- Against the Idea that God is Superior to Logic
- The Diminished God Refutation: Why unlikely sequences of events do not prove a god
- Could Computers be Religious?
Computer
- On Macros
- How to Prevent Phishing
- How to Rig an Internet Election
- What is a Low Level Language
- Improving Computer Security
Consciousness
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 1: Substrate Dependence
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 2: Extra Information About Substrate Dependence
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 3: The Problem of Arbitrariness of Interpretation
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 4: The Cosmological Many-Interpretations View
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 5: Cryptic Ontology
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value - Part 6: Further Justification
- Minds, Substrate, Measure and Value Part 7: Convergence on the Mathematical Universe
Evidential decision theory
- On Causation and Correlation - Part 1: Evidential decision theory is correct.
- On Causation and Correlation Part 2: Implications of Evidential Decision Theory
John Searle
- Machines Like Us interviews: John Searle
- John Searle's Position within an Evolutionary Context
- Searle's Argument Against AI and Emergent Properties
- On the Wrongness of Searle
Metaphysics
- On Reality
- On the Wrongness of Richard Swinburne About The Plausibility of a Multiverse
- What is real?
- The Principle of Modal Realism Equivalence
- Why Is Space 3D?
Mind uploading
- Why don't you turn into a house plant and die? Assuming you will survive by mind uploading may be simplistic.
- Many-Worlds Assisted Mind Uploading: A Thought Experiment
- Indirect Mind Uploading: Using AI to Avoid Staying Dead
Occam's Razor
- Occam's Razor Part 1: What Is Occam's Razor?
- Occam's Razor Part 2: Principles of Language
- Occam's Razor Part 3: Assumptions About Reality
- Occam's Razor Part 4: An Overview of How Occam's Razor Works
- Occam's Razor Part 5: How Mapping Can Work
- Occam's Razor Part 6: Partial Models as "Envelopes"
Other
- Self-Belief
- Can you retroactively put yourself in a computer simulation?
- On God, Evil and Simulation
- Newton and an Example of Appeal to Authority
- rationalskepticism.org Podcast - Episode 0: The Possibility of Extraterrestial Life
- On Information Scarcity
- On Drugs Policy
- Launching anything is good: How Governments Could Promote Development of Outer Space (Note: Brian Tomasik disagrees with this goal)
- Funding of Ambitious Projects
- When Are People Responsible?
- Taking the Virtual out of Virtual Reality
- Did 'I' Write This?
- Game Theory with Yourself
Quantum suicide
- Quantum Suicide and Inconsistency: Assuming you will survive quantum suicide may be simplistic.
- Delayed Quantum Suicide: Assuming you will survive quantum suicide may be simplistic.
- Quantum Brain Damage: Assuming you will survive quantum suicide may be simplistic.
- Why do we find randomness in nature?
- Repeated quantum suicide would not suggest that MWI is correct: a stronger version of the argument.
- Repeated quantum suicide would not suggest that MWI is correct – even to the person doing it.
- Civilization-Level Quantum Suicide