Secondhand Thoughts
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What is Cheating (and What Do We Want it to Be?)
Right now, conversations about AI in education are stuck in a strange place. Everyone agrees something has changed, but no one can quite say what the rules are anymore. Is using ChatGPT cheating? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes it de...
What Can I Want For Christmas?
I rewatch Eyes Wide Shut every Christmas, and every year I notice the same thing: the film isn’t especially interested in exposing secret desires. It’s interested in what people think they’re allowed to want.
After a longer-than-intended...
Nathan Fielder, Andy Kaufman, and the Ethical Stakes of Comedic Kayfabe
[Spoilers for Season 2 of HBO’s The Rehearsal]
Did you hear the news, Nathan Fielder flew a 737 full of passengers? Oh but actually it was a plane full of actors, and it's likely that he had practiced with empty planes beforehand, and we k...
On the Self-Interested Nature of Love
(After writing about Heat and thinking more about the ancient Greek concepts of aretē (excellence) and agōn (contest), I found myself returning to a question that Sartre raises but, I think, answers too bleakly: what if love is inherently s...
The Good Life Is the Good Lives
Writer Jonathan Ames once wrote, "I am not the same person when I’m writing as I am in the world." And his 2009 collection of essays is titled The Double Life is Twice As Good. Ames himself moonlights as a boxer, and in his brilliant HBO sh...
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philosophy professor writing at the intersection of philosophy and pop culture; bob dylan fan, mark twain enthusiast. forever unstable and fugitive.
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