ChatGPT is going wild, and it’s amazing.

Meet my Uncle Greg. For the last 34 years, he was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Yesterday, he was exonerated. 🙏🏾 🧵

This article of Hendricks's is embarrassingly bad (it reads more like an edgelord post than a paper), but if The New Bioethics (a Taylor & Francis Research Insights journal I've never heard of) did accept it, they *absolutely* owe a detailed accounting of why they are now revisiting that decision.

Excellent piece on "vibes" based security measures, and the danger of non-falsifiable policy justifications: hellgatenyc.com/hochul-nationa… I raise related worries in my "Defense and Ignorance: War, Secrecy, and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty," alexguerrero.org/storage/978019…

I’m honored to be giving the Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford this Spring. “Love and Abortion” What does love teach us about abortion? How does love challenge our ideas about abortion? How can love explain the importance of abortion? practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2024-lectures-…

Let us together imagine the person actually brought great pleasure by this!

So, who’s ready for lottocracy? Maybe 69% of Americans? (Check the latest Siena/NYT poll.) Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections out in October…

Lottocracy, it’s time. Coming to booksellers near you in October 2024.

Together with friends at Yale Law School (Scott Shapiro and Ketan Ramakrishnan) I’m organising a workshop on normative philosophy of computing, September 27-8. We’re looking for all kinds of analytical philosophical work on normative questions raised by computing. Not just AI ethics and

Out first week of October!

I wrote a post for Daily Nous on 2 ideas to improve the future of philosophy: (1) create an AP Philosophy class (2) create an APA Philosophy Essay Contest modeled on what the Ayn Rand Institute does Thoughts very welcome, here or in comments on DN! dailynous.com/2024/07/24/two…

Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections is now available in paperback for pre-order in the UK! amazon.co.uk/Lottocracy-Dem…

This is a fascinating article about sortition and democracy as practiced by the Munda and Oraon people living in a relatively remote, forested area of eastern India in the state of Jharkhand. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A very nice way to meet these candidates. Surprisingly inspiring.

When people complain about Ivory Tower academics… The Ivory Tower:

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Looking forward to this on November 4!