You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your actions.
Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.
An Open Letter To Members Of The United States Congress
I think we can all agree that nobody seems to be taking the business of governing ourselves terribly seriously. I say we can all agree on this because I think we all know that Donald Trump is a der…
Opinion | To Make the World Better, Think Small (Published 2016)
It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
We all care way too much what other people think of us. Here's why.
Misarticulation: Why We Sometimes Feel Our Words Don’t Match Our Thoughts
People do not always say what they mean. In everyday conversations, people regularly sense that they have not fully communicated what they had in mind—a subject
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
Nobody cares about your blog.
Nobody cares about your blog, but you should keep writing!
Opinion | The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media
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Against Empathy
Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.
Statement on the "AI pause" letter
The listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on why the harms from so-called AI are real and present and follow from the acts of people and corporations.
Why Does Everyone Hate Mercy, Part 2: This is Not The End
When I set out to touch on the topic presented to me for my first Patreon subscriber-funded essay, it was vaguely about the community’s…
Sam Altman thinks ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the good of AI.
In an interview with Brendan Bordelon of Politico, Altman said this was a fundamental difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. He believes that “for the benefits of this technology” (rather than the benefit of humanity), we should just deal with “bad things happening.” [Link: Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI | https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 | Politico]
If you care about fighting misinformation, strengthening information integrity and safeguarding democracy, you should read this account I've written about the journalist-creator lab my colleagues and I have just delivered in Kenya. Spoiler: it was an absolute success.
What happens when content creators and journalists come together?
www.trust.orgOne of my long held convictions is most people don't care about concepts like "openness" or "decentralization" or "interoperability" (people are busy!) but they do care about what those enable. It's the job of the much smaller number of people who do care to build the experience people will love.
