Rapid Fire

Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.

Aug 9

What Deck-Builders get Right

Skill explosions are all around us. Just compare Simone Biles’s 2024 gold medal vault with Larisa Latynina’s 1956 gold medal vault, set...

Jun 21

DEEP DIVE: Simplicity and Complexity

Hi I’m a four-year-old child learning 8 new words every day. So help me out: What’s a chef? Uhh…a chef is someone who cooks food. Oh...

May 17

Autonomy is Overrated

So now that I have a job in Bioethics, it’s time for me to figure out what Bioethics is. Unfortunately, it looks like Bioethics is a huge...

Apr 19

What makes You think you’re so Special? (a reluctant defense of X-Risk)

I spent this past week at The Midwest Ethics Symposium on AI presenting my research and meeting lots of great folks from academia and...

Apr 12

How to Tell Better Narratives of Character (ft. Canceling)

Our discourse around canceling seems a bit too simplistic. But how can we do better? We’ve all done bad things we wish we could take...

Mar 29

My talk on Superintelligence and Suicide

This week I gave a Zoom talk as part of the AI Futures Work-in-Progress Series at Indiana University (a thing I totally started but it’s...

Mar 22

What the hell is Wellness?

The first “fun” feature I ever put on my website was Well-Being in the Wild. Since I was writing a dissertation on well-being anyway, I...

Jan 26

Letting Students Write the Rules

I mentioned before that I’m driving to the University of Kentucky eSports Lounge this weekend to give a talk on how rules structure a...

Jan 19

Group Agents

See if any of these sentences strike you as weird: The Thunder won last night. The Thunder believed they were better than the white-hot...

Ricky Mouser