Rapid Fire

Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.

The Origin of Philosophy

This week, I cried reading a philosophy book. I can’t remember the last time that happened. In The Origin of Philosophy , Spanish...

How Coffees Get Scored

Do you know how coffees get scored? Here’s a sample espresso cupping form: Let’s talk survey methodology . This form is part of a...

Philosophy Books or Articles?

Hey! I’ve started reading more and more philosophy of science in the lead-up to my new postdoc in September. Today I wanna discuss a...

What Experts Don’t Know

(Now that I have a PhD, here’s a follow-up to last week’s article on the value of expert opinion.) As you become an expert in a field,...

Devotion & Meaning

I wanted to let you behind the curtain to see how philosophical papers are born, so Kjell and I pulled up a Call for Papers on Meaning...

Two Styles of Comedy

This week, I got to headline back-to-back shows for the biggest English-speaking comedy club in Barcelona, which means I got to try out...

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...

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...

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...

Letting Students Write the Rules

I mentioned before that I’m driving to the University of Kentucky eSports Lounge this weekend to give a talk on how rules structure a...

Group Agents

See if any of these sentences strike you as weird: The Thunder won last night. The Thunder believed they were better than the white-hot...

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