Consistently Biased
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...
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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Sep 6
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...
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...
May 10
Quantity as Quality?
I need to take a break from proofreading my dissertation (I’m turning it in today to defend this summer!) to write something else. So...
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 29, 2023
Why is Racism bad?
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...
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 8, 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...
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