I recently swapped advisors because the other one was hellbent on making me produce science, when all I wanted to do was change the world. …

Happy birthday to me, Birthday birthday it’s me, Birthday birthday, it’s my birthday, Birthday birthday, that’s me! Once more around the elliptical! I thought it could be fun to take stock of my little universe, on this the day of my birth. First and firstest, thank you to all the…

I wanted to take a second to look on the bright side of the pandemic. This won’t age well. As of my writing this, COVID19 — which we’ve all decided to call coronavirus to spite the beer — is a pandemic. That means it’s a disease that’s all over the…

Light, fluffy piece today. If you remember a bucket of months back, Lee Se-dol (LSD), Go grandmaster, has fought DeepMind’s Go-playing bot a few times now. The bot soundly trounced him in most of the games, but he did get it to bleed a couple of times. Well, he recently…

The following is not evidence that philosophical zombies are real — just evidence that I can turn myself into one in order to turn something in that looks like what modern philosophy is supposed to look like. Like, it reads okay and should make sense if you’re into the lore…

The following is not evidence that philosophical zombies are real — just evidence that I can turn myself into one in order to turn something in that looks like what modern philosophy is supposed to look like. Like, it reads okay and should make sense if you’re into the lore…

Grumble grumble and clouds of AXE body spray — I woke up to a flurry of activity from the bunkmates. Turned out we were all headed to the same event! Much worse for wear than before, I roused myself and headed out early — it hadn’t occurred to me that…

And we’re off! If you missed Day 0, head on over there. I’ll be right here where you left me. This year, I moved to Scotland to avoid jet lag for the conference. So it was a convenient little domestic plane ride to London City Airport, a few hops on…

Seasons pass, mountains rise, kingdoms fall, EA Global remains Hello friends and curious enemies. As I did last year, I’ll be providing you the blow-by-blow, play-by-play of Effective Altruism’s semi-annual conference, where good, the good, and the goodly go to speak about their plans and aspirations for saving the world. …