Another quick one while I continue my recuperatory week of doing as little as possible. I recently got to see a fascinating sequence of...

Hey, sorry for the late post, had to give a talk this morning! I’ve written a bit  about QALYs  here before, or Quality-Adjusted Life...

This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

So here’s the mind-blowing keynote for Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT? Apparently I have a very expressive face. Anyway, I’ll give you a...