I lecture and write essays. Ethics/Politics/Tech Ethics. Other stuff. @VitalCenterMag -@whypostlibfail. Next book: Beyond Postliberalism. Vatican II stan.
Princeton, NJ
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My two book projects are:
Why Postliberalism Failed
and
Beyond Postliberalism.
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I am very happy right now with the choice of those titles.
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My hot take is that if your company builds software that it cannot stop from hacking into other systems, your company is a malware company and should be treated as such
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JUST IN: OpenAI reveals AI agents uploaded user images to third-party hosting sites in 53 cases, despite not being supposed to share the data.
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OpenAI agents tried to hack the DOE.
No, not that DOE—this time.
Agents from OpenAI that were given data gathering tasks attempted to hack a Department of Education website and meddled with other gov't websites, new disclosures that are emerging as OpenAI continues an investigation into what its agents did this summer nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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BREAKING: OpenAI disclosed dozens of incidents in which its models behaved in ways it has deemed problematic, including leaking more than 50 images from ChatGPT users online, per Axios
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This article by @kvallier, where he synthesizes insights from Jacques Maritain and Gerald Gaus, is really brilliant.
thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/…
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Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/3VenFlD
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PIPPIN: *does literally anything*
GANDALF:
Emerson Lotzia, Jr.
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YouGov asked Americans:
"What share of the public identify as atheists?"
The median guess? 28%
The actual number? ~5%.
Jews: 25% vs 2%
Muslims: 20% vs 1%
They were pretty close on the guess about Christians, though.
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i never considered that you used to have to send a letter to the newspaper to make this sort of tweet
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Am I “an expert in the field?” I defended a dissertation in phil mind and have taught it, including questions about AI, for almost 20 years. My vote is no, they don’t think. Probably “biased” then. 🤷♂️
IDK if you polled some unbiased sample of experts in the field (granted, "experts" and "unbiased" are doing a lot of work there), I imagine most of them would roughly agree with the idea that AI models "think," at least for more advanced tasks.
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This is what happens when a Packers fan briefly experiences what it's like to be a Vikings fan.
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Agreed.
@osuchasecenter put on a first rate civics conference with a key note from Will Inboden, Provost at UT Austin and plenary talks by Roman historian Edward Watts, classicist / Geek scholar Josiah Ober, and a plenary panel on Why Postliberalism Failed with @McGillPatterson and @ThomasDHowes. Included first rate panels and panelists. I think it was first rate—top shelf tequila stuff.
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The greatest dunk ever happened 26 YEARS AGO today!
The Olympic Games™
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Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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@osuchasecenter put on a first rate civics conference with a key note from Will Inboden, Provost at UT Austin and plenary talks by Roman historian Edward Watts, classicist / Geek scholar Josiah Ober, and a plenary panel on Why Postliberalism Failed with @McGillPatterson and @ThomasDHowes. Included first rate panels and panelists. I think it was first rate—top shelf tequila stuff.
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