Archive - The Absent-Minded Professor

May 2025

Reconstituting The Conditions Of Human Existence

"Mere" technological entities shape social and moral life

May 27 •

Love Being Made Visible

A letter to the class of 2025

May 20 •

The Problem With Building What People Want

We think we’re serving the rider, but we’re really feeding the elephant

May 13 •

Mental Models Matter

The importance of understanding LLMs as flexible interpolative functions from prompts to continuations

May 6 •

April 2025

Engineering Leaders for a Better World

Here's the program I want to build to cultivate them.

Apr 29 •

Productive and Parasitic Friction

Technology does not discriminate between them. We should.

Apr 22 •

How a Certain Scheme to Improve the Human Condition Will Fail

The intellectual and moral hazards of generative AI as understood through stories of squirrels in shredders and forest death

Apr 15 •

The Warm Demander Manifesto

A letter to my students

Apr 8 •

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