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...

If you had  to summarize a statistical distribution with one number…well, I guess you could do worse than taking an average. Even so,...

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...

Hi I’m a four-year-old child learning 8 new words every day. So help me out: What’s a chef? Uhh…a chef is someone who cooks food. Oh...

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...

I’ve been working hard to get clear on the differences between quantitative and qualitative values lately. Here’s an example: If I want...

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...

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...