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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Value Complacency
This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...
Oct 11, 2024


Quick Hitter: How do you understand Confusion?
There are lots  of buzzwords in the AI space—fairness, transparency, safety, bias, privacy, trustworthiness, I could go on and on. And...
Oct 4, 2024


Something I HATE about Averages
If you had  to summarize a statistical distribution with one number…well, I guess you could do worse than taking an average. Even so,...
Sep 13, 2024


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...
Aug 16, 2024


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...
Jun 28, 2024


Jazz bends Music like a Gaudà Building
I recently got to listen to a jazz concert on the roof of Antoni GaudÃ’s magnificent La Pedrera. Meet the building that teaches you how...
May 24, 2024


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 9, 2024


3 things I learned Writing the Rules
Next month, I’m giving a talk at the University of Kentucky Esports Lounge (yes, really) about rethinking the place of rules in the...
Dec 15, 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 8, 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 25, 2023
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