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...
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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Jun 14
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...
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...
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...
Mar 1
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...
Feb 9
Sports as Politics?
If politics were more like sports, would that be an unmitigated disaster? Or could the comparison be helpful, in at least some ways? We...
Feb 2
My Dissertation, pt. 2
(Here’s part one btw.) We see this problem time and time again in the history of Western philosophy: We live in a society. (Surprise.)...
Dec 29, 2023
Why is Racism bad?
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...
Nov 10, 2023
How to Read a Riot
So recently, Marcus Arvan invited me to pitch my forthcoming paper “How to Read a Riot” to a public-facing audience of about 2,000...
Oct 20, 2023
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...
Sep 8, 2023
Game Values vs. Real-Life Values
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...
Aug 18, 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...
Jun 9, 2023
Justice for Assholes (and why we need Utopias)
I’ve been putting together a syllabus called Utopias that draws from a bunch of fields (philosophy, literature, anthropology…) to try to...
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