I was invited to write a short public-facing piece about my research for the APA (American Philosophical Association) Blog, which you can...

(Stick around for a sneak peek  at my latest manifesto!) It’s been a busy week onboarding at Hopkins and continuing to get settled in...

Here’s a reasonably sophisticated argument. (I’m not  saying that it’s right.) Trust the Process means, care about process over actual...

“I read a lot of books,” says Elon Musk. Apparently one of them is Superintelligence, the highly-influential book that AI moguls from Sam...

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

Recently I’ve started thinking more about the political role of experts in society. Who counts as an expert anyway? We expect a lot from...

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...

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...

At a really (really) high level, performance is a function of what you bring to the table (we’ll call that talent), and and how you can...

When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...

I recently spoke to a trained economist who argued that racism was bad, but only because it was bad for the economy. What can we say...

I’ve been working hard to get clear on the differences between quantitative and qualitative values lately. Here’s an example: If I want...

My friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...

I’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...

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

Darius Clark, 25, is a highly decorated long jumper who holds the Guinness World Record for the highest vertical leap with a running...

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...

My concern here is that the philosophers believe they are actually asking deep questions about nature... It’s not that there can’t be...

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”...

Just a quick dive into a useful distinction, because these aren’t the same: Effectiveness is all about outcomes. (You know, effects.)...