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Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Augmenting vs. Automating Away
Another quick one while I continue my recuperatory week of doing as little as possible. I recently got to see a fascinating sequence of...
Nov 29, 2024


Better On Average™
I went to an incredible talk this week by a renowned optimizer in AI spaces. He’s worked on everything from power grids to e-commerce...
Nov 8, 2024

There is no Shallow End of the Pool
Later this month, I’ll be teaching my dissertation chapter on grief to a grad seminar of young bioethicists as part of a class session...
Nov 1, 2024


Value Complacency
This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...
Oct 11, 2024

Quick Hitter: How do you understand Confusion?
There are lots of buzzwords in the AI space—fairness, transparency, safety, bias, privacy, trustworthiness, I could go on and on. And...
Oct 4, 2024


If you say “Black Box” again I’m escaping to the Cloud
Just a short one—I’m in Orono, Maine today at a conference on Agency and Reasoning in Games . Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk on board...
Sep 27, 2024


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...
Jun 21, 2024

The books Elon pretends he’s read
“I read a lot of books,” says Elon Musk. Apparently one of them is Superintelligence, the highly-influential book that AI moguls from Sam...
Jun 14, 2024

I’m shining the Bat-Signal
Maybe you’ve seen my Work-in-Progress talk on AI and the Future of Work. Maybe you even liked it! If so, I have good news: In less than a...
Jun 7, 2024


I’m in Norway
This week I’ve been pretty busy hiking through Norway. So instead of a regular blog post, here’s what’s up... My article “Writing with...
May 3, 2024

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 19, 2024

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 29, 2024


I made a Video Essay
Two weeks ago, I had no idea how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. But now, I’m pretty good at Googling. Indiana University is holding a...
Mar 1, 2024

Look at me I’m on a Panel
Last week, I was sick as a dog and downright loopy. What a perfect time to be invited to an APA Panel on AI ethics! Fortunately, I...
Oct 20, 2023


I got Published
Neat! You can check out a free version of my paper “Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism” here. (The final, professionally edited and typeset...
Aug 18, 2023


I got my guy!
So here’s the mind-blowing keynote for Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT? Apparently I have a very expressive face. Anyway, I’ll give you a...
Aug 11, 2023


No blog post BUT...
Come check out Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT?, the free Zoom conference Cargile and I have been organizing for months! It starts...
Aug 2, 2023

Protagonists aren’t always Good Guys
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let's...
Jul 28, 2023

Twilight Imperium and Instrumental Convergence
I got to play Twilight Imperium last weekend and I was so powerful I didn’t know what to do. I like to describe Twilight Imperium as 8...
Jul 14, 2023

I had to write a research statement about what I’m working on. Here’s my first draft.
Let me know what you think! I'm still figuring out how to summarize my research program and instill confidence I’ll be a “productive”...
Jun 30, 2023
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