Philosopher (Vanderbilt). I like bounded rationality, inquiry, and dogs. Seriously, DM me your dogs.

Joined October 2018
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Today's the day! Inquiry under bounds is out (open access) from OUP: academic.oup.com/book/57345
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New symposium on my book Inquiry under Bounds at Syndicate Philosophy: syndicate.network/symposia/p…
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Pangram scores of submitted NeurIPS position papers this year: 70.5% of papers above 50%, 28.2% at 100%. Please do better people. blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a…

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Framing effects are often taken as paradigmatic examples of human irrationality. In this new paper (forthcoming in Phil Imprint) I show how framing effects can be in an important sense fully rational. philpapers.org/rec/THOPRF
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Drawing on Herbert Simon's notion of procedural rationality, I show how rational processes of category-based choice, salience-driven decisionmaking, and decisionmaking in finite automaton models can produce framing effects.
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I draw on these findings to cause trouble for recent attempts to use framing effects to debunk moral intuitions. If framing effects can come from rational processes, then we shouldn't always be ashamed of moral judgment-forming processes that show framing effects.
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I'm working on a new paper explaining why Yudkowsky was right about everything.
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Come to my manuscript workshop! It will be fun.
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I spoke with Edouard Machery about bounded rationality on the Conversations at the Center Podcast from UPitt Center for Philosophy of Science youtube.com/watch?v=BOKqpUzv…
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David Thorstad retweeted
Curious about the ideal and non-ideal theory debate? My book, Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory, is now out open access with Cambridge Elements in Political Philosophy! Read the book that David Estlund has called "easily the best full treatment of the topic that we have." (link below)
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The problem with OpenAI's backtracking is that nobody trusts them right now.
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Cancelled my OpenAI subscription. Would encourage others to do the same.
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David Thorstad retweeted
It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.
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Sometimes, people tell you exactly who they are. Believe them.
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Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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In a few weeks, 3 of our profession's top 5 journals will close for submissions. This is not an ideal situation.
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Just got an email from Wiley. They want me to help train their AI assistant (for free) which was trained on the content we wrote for them (for free). They're framing this as an exclusive opportunity for me.
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CFP out for Inquiry Network WIP group (Spring 2026). Send us papers! philevents.org/event/show/14…

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