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...
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Ricky Mouser
Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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- Jul 19
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...
- 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...
- 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 1
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...
- Feb 2
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.)...
- Jan 5
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...
- Dec 8, 2023
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...
- 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 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 22, 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...
- 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...
- Jun 30, 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 9, 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...
- Apr 7, 2023
Here's my dissertation in 9 minutes
From a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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