Archive - Digital Agency

Ethics is Frequentist, Not Bayesian.

May 20, 2023 •

February 2021

13. Man Disassociated

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…

Feb 2, 2021 •

December 2020

11. The Unbearable Lightness of Self-Improvement

Originally published December 2018

Dec 3, 2020 •

October 2020

10. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (Pt. 2)

On The Epistemic Status of Real versus Imagined Rewards

Oct 21, 2020 •

September 2020

9. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (Pt. 1)

The Marshmallow Experiment. Everyone knows the story by now: young children are left alone in a room with a single marshmallow, the attending adult…

Sep 30, 2020 •

August 2020

8. What I talk about when I talk about agency

I want to begin further exploring the topic of agency with a question: Do you laugh at jokes that you know aren’t funny?

Aug 19, 2020 •

7. The Motte, The Bailey and The Inevitable Conclusion

Some reading earlier issues may have wondered, yea people and corporations are changing stories and manipulating small parts of our daily activities, so…

Aug 5, 2020 •

July 2020

6. P-Hacking Reality in Real-Time

Jul 29, 2020 •

5. The P stands for People

Tech companies have a mountain of experimental results that can empirically show how our behavior has and is being changed by them. And they have the…

Jul 22, 2020 •

4. The Red Herring of Data Collection

Technology and AI ethicists have it wrong.

Jul 15, 2020 •

3. Compliance and the Eroding Away of Agency

Guest post by Zero HP Lovecraft

Jul 8, 2020 •

2. Nudging, a Parable

The commercialization of subtle behavior manipulation

Jul 1, 2020 •

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