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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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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


Debate Mode
philosophy is not just about questions, concepts, and arguments, but is also about idioms —Raymond Geuss I’ve been meaning to write some...
Apr 26, 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


Someone could get it Wrong
I had a really interesting conversation about art criticism this week. So here we go: What does it mean to be great at jazz? Look, I know...
Oct 13, 2023


On being taken Seriously
Now that I’m back in Bloomington for a while, everyone has a ton of advice on how to present myself on the academic job market so that...
Sep 22, 2023


Being a Coach
I don’t love talk of ‘smart’ or ‘high IQ’ basketball. I got to coach a youth basketball team recently, and it was awesome. For a lot of...
May 26, 2023


Shit and Bullshit jobs
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share....
Apr 14, 2023
Here's my dissertation in 9 minutes
From a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Apr 7, 2023


The All-Star Game is Bullshit
that is the worst basketball game ever played...a tough game to sit through, I'm not gonna lie. —Western All-Star Coach Mike Malone In...
Feb 24, 2023
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