Trusting the Process
Here’s a reasonably sophisticated argument. (I’m not saying that it’s right.) Trust the Process means, care about process over actual...
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Ricky Mouser
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...
- Jun 7
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...
- Apr 26
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 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...
- Apr 5
Fake Experts
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...
- 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...
- Mar 15
Let a thousand flowers bloom
Last week, we saw Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry square off head-to-head. (I’ll try not to get too technical, but I wanna lay out...
- 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...
- Nov 24, 2023
So there’s this psychology paper I keep thinking about
It starts, like all psychology papers, with a competitor for the most boringest sentence ever: One of the essential insights from...
- 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 27, 2023
We’ve confused Intrinsic & Ultimate value and it’s been a Disaster
If you’ve happened to take a course in intro ethics, you might have heard of a classic distinction between instrumental and intrinsic...
- 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...
- Oct 13, 2023
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...
- 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...
- Sep 1, 2023
A sneak peek of our upcoming APA Talk
It all started with a question: What the hell is Andrew Tate doing? Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad...
- Aug 25, 2023
The Politics of Age of Empires II
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...
- 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...
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