Checked 31 October 2026. This batch added 57 articles to the original 75, bringing the collection to 132. The records below describe exactly what was and was not inspected.
For every reference used by a new entry, the page was requested by script on 31 October 2026. The table records the HTTP status, the page title returned, and how many times a few topic keywords appear in the page text, counted case-insensitively. A keyword count shows that the page discusses the topic; it does not show that the page supports every sentence in the article. No reference was read in full during this batch, and nothing below should be read as peer review.
Articles were written from the editor’s general knowledge of the literature and then checked against the table for topic coverage. Where a detail (an original publication, a year, or a name) is not shown on the page consulted, the article’s Sources and Attribution section says so. PDF sources (Bostrom, Harnad) were retrieved but their text was not parsed; the articles that rely on them paraphrase the commonly cited abstracts and say that they should be verified against the papers. Project Gutenberg editions are cited as primary texts and were not read for the specific passages.
These candidates were dropped because the pages checked did not mention the scenario, not because the scenarios lack merit. They are good first suggestions for a future contributor who can supply a better source.
| URL | HTTP status | Page title | Keyword counts | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9906002 | 200 | [cs/9906002] The Symbol Grounding Problem | Symbol Grounding: 4 | symbol-grounding |
| https://nickbostrom.com/papers/pascal.pdf | 200 | PDF or non-HTML (application/pdf) | text not parsed | pascals-mugging |
| https://nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf | 200 | PDF or non-HTML (application/pdf) | text not parsed | orthogonality-thesis |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/ | 200 | Arrow’s Theorem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | impossibility: 30 | arrows-impossibility-theorem |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/closure-epistemic/ | 200 | Epistemic Closure (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | zebra: 15 | disguised-mule |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ | 200 | The Computational Theory of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Lucas: 5; Penrose: 4 | lucas-penrose-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confirmation/ | 200 | Confirmation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | raven: 99 | ravens-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/ | 200 | The Unity of Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | bisection: 3; Nagel: 3; split: 112 | brain-bisection |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ | 200 | Consequentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Williams: 8 | jim-and-the-captain |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/ | 200 | Externalism About the Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Twin Earth: 10 | twin-earth |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/ | 200 | Descartes’ Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | wax: 9 | wax-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doing-allowing/ | 200 | Doing vs. Allowing Harm (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Rachels: 9; bathtub: 3; Jones: 8 | smith-and-jones-bathtub |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/ | 200 | Doctrine of Double Effect (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | bomber: 9; terror: 9 | terror-and-tactical-bomber |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatalism/ | 200 | Fatalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | idle: 5 | idle-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/ | 200 | Fine-Tuning (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | firing squad: 6 | leslies-firing-squad |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fitch-paradox/ | 200 | Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | knowab: 159 | knowability-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/formal-belief/ | 200 | Formal Representations of Belief (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | lottery: 27; preface: 2 | lottery-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/ | 200 | The Frame Problem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | frame problem: 54; Dennett: 4 | frame-problem |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/ | 200 | Gottlob Frege (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Morning Star: 5; Evening Star: 3 | hesperus-and-phosphorus |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/ | 200 | Functionalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Martian: 3; pain: 63 | mad-pain-martian-pain |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/future-contingents/ | 200 | Future Contingents (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | sea battle: 1; Aristotle: 14 | sea-battle |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/ | 200 | Galileo Galilei (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | ship: 9 | galileos-ship |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ | 200 | Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Lucas: 7; Penrose: 13 | lucas-penrose-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goodman/ | 200 | Nelson Goodman (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | grue: 21 | grue |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ | 200 | Heraclitus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | river: 26 | heraclitus-river |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/ | 200 | David Hume (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | shade of blue: 2 | humes-missing-shade-of-blue |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-time/ | 200 | Identity Over Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Tib: 11 | problem-of-the-many |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-arguments/ | 200 | Arguments for Incompatibilism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Pereboom: 21; manipulation: 31 | four-case-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/ | 200 | The Problem of Induction (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | grue: 6 | grue |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/infinity/ | 200 | Infinity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Galileo: 9 | galileos-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/material-constitution/ | 200 | Material Constitution (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Lumpl: 13; Goliath: 15; Dion: 14 | dion-and-theon, statue-and-clay |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mctaggart/ | 200 | John M. E. McTaggart (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | A-series: 12; B-series: 6 | mctaggarts-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore/ | 200 | George Edward Moore (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | hand: 16; external world: 8 | moores-proof-of-an-external-world |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-luck/ | 200 | Moral Luck (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | lorry: 1; driver: 14; Nagel: 24; Williams: 23 | lorry-driver |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/names/ | 200 | Names (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Hesperus: 4; Phosphorus: 4 | hesperus-and-phosphorus |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/ | 200 | Newton’s Views on Space, Time, and Motion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | bucket: 17 | newtons-bucket |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/ | 200 | Nietzsche’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | recurrence: 4 | eternal-recurrence |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ | 200 | Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | eternal recurrence: 17 | eternal-recurrence |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/ | 200 | Other Minds (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | analogy: 36 | problem-of-other-minds |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/ | 200 | Simpson’s Paradox (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Simpson: 108; Berkeley: 5 | simpsons-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/ | 200 | Zeno’s Paradoxes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Dichotomy: 6; Arrow: 20; Stadium: 7 | zenos-arrow, zenos-dichotomy |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradoxes-contemporary-logic/ | 200 | Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Grelling: 8 | grelling-nelson-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ | 200 | Pascal’s Wager (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | wager: 208 | pascals-wager |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-myths/ | 200 | Plato’s Myths (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | cave: 4 | allegory-of-the-cave |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/ | 200 | Prisoner’s Dilemma (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | stag hunt: 26 | stag-hunt |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/problem-of-many/ | 200 | The Problem of the Many (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Tibbles: 16 | problem-of-the-many |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/ | 200 | The Uncertainty Principle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | microscope: 11 | heisenbergs-microscope |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/ | 200 | Willard Van Orman Quine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | indeterminacy: 26; rabbit: 7 | gavagai |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reliabilism/ | 200 | Reliabilist Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Norman: 15 | norman-the-clairvoyant |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/ | 200 | Religion and Morality in Western Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Euthyphro: 9 | euthyphro-dilemma |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rule-following/ | 200 | Rule-Following and Intentionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | quus: 8 | quus-rule-following |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-choice/ | 200 | Social Choice Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Condorcet: 55; Sen: 89; liberal: 17 | condorcet-paradox, sens-liberal-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-convensimul/ | 200 | Conventionality of Simultaneity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | simultaneity: 37 | einsteins-train |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/ | 200 | The Hole Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | hole: 135 | hole-argument |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-supertasks/ | 200 | Supertasks (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | lamp: 40 | thomsons-lamp |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleological-arguments/ | 200 | Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Paley: 15; watch: 10 | paleys-watch |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/ | 200 | Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Loschmidt: 6 | loschmidt-reversibility |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/ | 200 | Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | McTaggart: 27 | mctaggarts-paradox |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/ | 200 | The Turing Test (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Blockhead: 21 | blockhead |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/williams-bernard/ | 200 | Bernard Williams (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Jim: 8; integrity: 20 | jim-and-the-captain |
| https://simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf | 200 | PDF or non-HTML (application/pdf) | text not parsed | simulation-argument |
| https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497 | 200 | The Republic by Plato / Project Gutenberg | Republic: 5 | allegory-of-the-cave |
| https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5001 | 200 | Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein / Project Gutenberg | Relativity: 7; Einstein: 7 | einsteins-train |