Assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Previously: Stanford, Pitt HPS, Princeton, Iowa, Jefferson High, Taft Middle, Coolidge Elementary, various daycares.
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
Bold choice to demonstrate Thought Leadership by getting throttled by the character limit before finishing the word 'leadership.' The AI Space thanks you for your service.
another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.
In case any of y'all find yourselves at one of my talks in the future, I think the best question you could ask me is: "Your project [career/argument/etc] seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. How do you explain your success?"
One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.
"Reason is for believing truths; reason is for post hoc rationalizing; reason is for persuasion and social cohesion." No. Reason is for deciding if you want to drink a cold, refreshing Coke Zero
it is sorta ironic that—though of course we all batted around the vanderbilt report stuff on here and in our little publications—my sense is that it got essentially no uptake in mainstream press and media (correct me if i'm wrong!). hard to imagine it moving the needle on Public Trust, as a result
Brett KarlanI think it is very silly to think that, if we professors just do this One Weird Trick, people will like us again. There's an entire media and political apparatus dedicated to making people hate us. Maybe we should start there
A philosopher named Alex who rails gender and/or conference participants. Curious
What else are they hiding from us?
Brett KarlanAlex Byrne Alex Byrn Alex Byr Alex By Alex B Alex Alex R Alex Ra Alex Rai Alex Rail Alex Rails
