I'm a cofounder of and researcher at the Foundational Research Institute. I also created the website Essays On Reducing Suffering.
I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2009, where I studied computer science, mathematics, statistics, and economics and published a few papers on machine learning and international trade. From 2009-2013, I worked in the relevance division of the Bing search engine at Microsoft. I built end-to-end three of Bing's production ranking models, which served over 5 billion searches on Bing and Yahoo every month.
I'm currently located near Albany, New York, USA. Feel free to get in touch using the contact information on my personal home page.
My contributions
editArticles I created
edit- Animal welfare and rights in China (check views)
- Conciliationism (check views)
- Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (check views)
- Consciousness and the Brain (check views)
- Fish welfare at slaughter (check views)
- Higher-order theories of consciousness (check views)
- Humane Slaughter Association (check views)
- Insect euthanasia (check views)
- Joshua Greene (psychologist) (check views)
- March of the Machines (check views)
- Measure problem (cosmology) (check views)
- Pest insect population dynamics (check views)
- Phenomenal concept strategy (check views)
- Radical flank effect (check views)
- Welfare of farmed insects (check views)
- Zen and the Art of Consciousness (check views)
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Article subsections where I was the majority author
edit- In African philosophy:
- In Artificial intelligence (video games):
- In Biological basis of love:
- In Boltzmann brain:
- In Chemistry (relationship):
- In Cockroach:
- In Electrical brain stimulation:
- In Fish farming:
- French kiss:
- In Hard landscape materials:
- In Intentional stance:
- In Inter-paradigm debate in international relations theory:
- In Knowledge by acquaintance:
- In Lac:
- In Mind uploading:
- In Pain in invertebrates:
- In Prisoner's dilemma:
- In Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons:
- In Roadkill:
- In Recursive self-improvement
- In Rights issue:
- In Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal:
- In Thinking about Consciousness:
- In True Names:
- In Two-dimensionalism:
- In Unmanned aerial vehicle:
- In War:
- In What Is it Like to Be a Bat?:
Articles where I contributed at least one citation (besides previously mentioned)
edit- Cybernetic revolt
- David Pearce (philosopher)
- Differential technological development
- Error-related negativity
- Foie gras
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Global catastrophic risks (nuclear war)
- Grandfather paradox
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Jill Robinson
- Liberal arts college
- Machine ethics
- Our Final Invention
- Penis fencing
- Pest control
- Pharmaceutical glaze
- Philosophical zombie
- Qualia
- Self-Sampling Assumption
- Shellac
- Technological singularity
- Theory of International Politics
- Unmanned aerial vehicle
- Westermarck effect
- Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
- Wild animal suffering
- Zero moment point
Full list of contributions
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