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Over almost a decade, starting in 2007, I conducted a series of empirical studies (mostly collaboratively with Joshua Rust ) on the moral behavior of ethics professors. We consistently found that ethicists don't behave better than professors specializing

Is the world morally ordered ? Do good things come to those who act well and bad things to those who act badly? Do the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer? I will not -- you'll be disappointed to hear -- actually answer this question in this post. Inste

Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day ! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World , by the author himself. You probably haven't had time to read the whole thing (I don't blame you). So here's a synthesis of wh

Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and "best of" placements over the previous ten years. If you're curious what magazines tend to be viewed by insiders as elite, check

AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26! Summary: Our most advanced AI systems might soon - within the next five to thirty years - be as richly and meaningfully conscious as ordinary humans, or ev

Aloha from Kauai! Here's another snail for your enjoyment. Since I'm still on vacation, here's a repost with edits from 2011 and from my 2019 book A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures . a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/

Aloha from Honolulu! I have vacation brain, so I'll do a summer-themed repost. img alt="" border="0" height="320" dat...

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. from Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The literature on superintelligence and AI alignment tends to assume that an intelligent AI will have one set of values, o

I don't want to read your AI-generated email. Lots of reasons why, but here's the core of it: I want the text to reflect your thoughts. I want to know that you, the human, actually had those ideas and had them authentically enough to express them in exact