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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Sep 27, 2024
If you say “Black Box” again I’m escaping to the Cloud
Just a short one—I’m in Orono, Maine today at a conference on Agency and Reasoning in Games . Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk on board...

Sep 13, 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,...


Jun 21, 2024
DEEP DIVE: Simplicity and Complexity
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...

Apr 12, 2024
How to Tell Better Narratives of Character (ft. Canceling)
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...


Apr 5, 2024
Fake Experts
Recently I’ve started thinking more about the political role of experts in society. Who counts as an expert anyway? We expect a lot from...


Mar 15, 2024
Let a thousand flowers bloom
Last week, we saw Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry square off head-to-head. (I’ll try not to get too technical, but I wanna lay out...

Mar 8, 2024
I got a Job
First off, if you’re on the committee of a university I’ve applied to, I’m very sorry. It took me thirty minutes to figure out how to...

Jan 19, 2024
Group Agents
See if any of these sentences strike you as weird: The Thunder won last night. The Thunder believed they were better than the white-hot...
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