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Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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There is no Shallow End of the Pool
Later this month, I’ll be teaching my dissertation chapter on grief to a grad seminar of young bioethicists as part of a class session...
Nov 1, 2024


SNEAK PEEK: Board Game Ethics
(Stick around for a sneak peek at my latest manifesto!) It’s been a busy week onboarding at Hopkins and continuing to get settled in...
Sep 6, 2024


Want a copy of my Dissertation?
I’ve spent most of this week driving 1500 miles and moving into my new place in Baltimore, so this is just a quick update. I’ve started...
Jul 19, 2024


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 14, 2024


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...
Jun 7, 2024


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 29, 2024


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 22, 2024


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...
Mar 1, 2024


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.)...
Feb 2, 2024


You will be Misread
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...
Jan 5, 2024


My Dissertation: pt. 1
For the past month, I’ve been running an experiment. I started going to two therapists so we can form a consensus. Weirdly, this is kind...
Dec 8, 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 27, 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...
Oct 13, 2023


On being taken Seriously
Now that I’m back in Bloomington for a while, everyone has a ton of advice on how to present myself on the academic job market so that...
Sep 22, 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


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...
Aug 18, 2023


I had to write a research statement about what I’m working on. Here’s my first draft.
Let me know what you think! I'm still figuring out how to summarize my research program and instill confidence I’ll be a “productive”...
Jun 30, 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...
Jun 9, 2023
Here's my dissertation in 9 minutes
From a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Apr 7, 2023
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