I’m not a lurker, but a regular commenter (and a ‘top contributor’ for the site’s entire first year), but I’m not sure I’ve filled this in elsewhere...
What is your main domain of expertise?
Short list: computer ethics, web development, generalist philosopher
I’m not sure if I have anything I’d like to call ‘expertise’, but I’m about as well-versed as anyone on the computer ethics literature and I’ve a decent grasp of normative ethics and philosophical logic (though I’ve a growing distaste for the style of academic philosophy). When I’m not working on my dissertation, I’m doing web development as a day job, and side academic interests are the web, video games, new media, and transhumanism. In truth, I’m more of a generalist, so I (hopefully) can produce insights that insiders in a field would miss.
My (hopefully) forthcoming doctorate is in computer ethics; my dissertation is on how to build ethical robots. My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy, where I focused on ethics and computer ethics, and minored in asian studies and computer science.
I’ve been called a “serious academic” and put in the category “leading futurists and technologists”, though I don’t know which I find more dubious. And I don’t think “one of the world’s foremost Yudkowsky scholars” would be much of a stretch.
What issues in your domain call most critically for sharp thinking?
That’s an odd question. I’m not sure if that’s equivalent to “What issues in your domain are most critical” or “What issues in your domain are most likely to be corrupted by standard human failures of rationality” or some combination of the two.
The big problem that brought about the field of computer ethics is: New technology creates situations that our existing institutions (and intuitions) aren’t built for, and so what should we do about it?
What might you learn from experts in other domains that could be useful in yours?
Being something of a generalist, I’m always hoping to be backed up by someone with more domain-specific knowledge.
I’m not a lurker, but a regular commenter (and a ‘top contributor’ for the site’s entire first year), but I’m not sure I’ve filled this in elsewhere...
Short list: computer ethics, web development, generalist philosopher
I’m not sure if I have anything I’d like to call ‘expertise’, but I’m about as well-versed as anyone on the computer ethics literature and I’ve a decent grasp of normative ethics and philosophical logic (though I’ve a growing distaste for the style of academic philosophy). When I’m not working on my dissertation, I’m doing web development as a day job, and side academic interests are the web, video games, new media, and transhumanism. In truth, I’m more of a generalist, so I (hopefully) can produce insights that insiders in a field would miss.
My (hopefully) forthcoming doctorate is in computer ethics; my dissertation is on how to build ethical robots. My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy, where I focused on ethics and computer ethics, and minored in asian studies and computer science.
I’ve been called a “serious academic” and put in the category “leading futurists and technologists”, though I don’t know which I find more dubious. And I don’t think “one of the world’s foremost Yudkowsky scholars” would be much of a stretch.
That’s an odd question. I’m not sure if that’s equivalent to “What issues in your domain are most critical” or “What issues in your domain are most likely to be corrupted by standard human failures of rationality” or some combination of the two.
The big problem that brought about the field of computer ethics is: New technology creates situations that our existing institutions (and intuitions) aren’t built for, and so what should we do about it?
Being something of a generalist, I’m always hoping to be backed up by someone with more domain-specific knowledge.