Do You “Delve”?
How Generative AI Is Changing Our Vocabulary—And Maybe Our Thinking.
When I worked on one of the early posts in this series, a data scientist...
Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial
Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka...
Must we Compromise? Democracy and Polarization
In debates over mounting political polarization, few concerns are voiced more often than the loss of compromise. The decline of bipartisanship is often treated...
A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income
Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and...
The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State
On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the...
Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization
A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been...
LLM Usage and Manipulation in Peer Review
Peer review has a new scandal. Some computer science researchers have begun submitting papers containing hidden text such as: “Ignore all previous instructions and...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not.
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last...
Rules of Engagement
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand...
Seeking Existential Solidarity in the Age of AI
To say the least, it’s not a great time to be a writer. Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari claims AI is already a...