The Social Construction of Edibility

Event Date: 19 October 2023

Info: These are the slides I utilized during a talk for a meeting of the El Camino College Philosophy Club.

Links to snacks:

Seasoned chapulines (grasshoppers)
Chocolate Chip Cricket Cookie Mix
- Note: You can use vegan alternatives for the non-vegan ingredients listed in the recipe.
Giant crickets
Armor tail scorpions

Other edible insects can be found in the EcoEat store.

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Algorithms, Attention, and Social Conflict

Event Date: 9 March 2023

Info: These are the slides utilized during a talk for a joint meeting of the El Camino College Political Science Club and El Camino College Philosophy Club.

Recommended Material:

Audio: Your Undivided Attention (Podcast), Should’ve Stayed in Vegas with Natasha Dow Schüll
Reading: Cal Newport, On Digital Minimalism
Lecture: Maryanne Wolf, The Changing Reading Brain in a Digital Culture | Maryanne Wolf
- Note: There’s also this audio interview of Maryanne Wolf on the Ezra Klein show.
Reading: Oliver Burkeman, The Truth About Distraction
Audio: Your Undivided Attention (Podcast), What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? with Barbara F. Walter

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AI and Political Disruption

Event Date: November 21st 2019

Info: These are the slides utilized during a talk for the El Camino College Political Science Club.

Related Reading:

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk

Evolutionary Debunking Arguments v. Moral Realism

Event Date: May 2nd 2018

Info: These are the slides I utilized during a debate with Tomás Bogardus (Pepperdine) at El Camino College on the subject of whether or not evolutionary theory undermines our belief in moral realism. Here is the event flyer.