Philosophy, technology, and code—sometimes together, sometimes apart—through essays, blog posts, and projects exploring how ideas evolve.
In the realm of logic, epistemology, and scientific inquiry, few principles are as misunderstood—and misapplied—as the relationship between evidence and absence. The phrase 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' has become a philosophical cliché, often invoked to defend beliefs that lack...
Read More →While building a blog API that needed to retrieve the 5 most recent posts, we encountered a classic database performance problem: the inefficient table scan. What started as a simple requirement—"get the last 5 blog posts"—became a practical lesson in understanding data access patterns and the...
Read More →We are witnessing a profound shift in how artificial intelligence shapes not just our tools, but our fundamental understanding of reality itself. What began as computational algorithms has evolved into something far more significant: a new lens through which we interpret existence, knowledge, and...
Read More →*This is Part 1 of a 7-part series exploring how the classic trolley problem manifests in modern technology.* Imagine you're standing by a railroad switch. A runaway trolley is hurtling down the tracks toward five people who will certainly die if it continues. You can pull a lever to divert the...
Read More →In 1670, French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal proposed an argument that would echo through centuries: even if you're uncertain whether God exists, you should bet on belief. The reasoning was simple but profound. If God exists and you believe, you gain infinite reward (heaven). If God...
Read More →In 1950, mathematicians Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher at RAND Corporation created a game that would become one of the most studied problems in social science. Two prisoners, separated and unable to communicate, each face a choice: betray the other or stay silent. If both stay silent, they each...
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Every day, we publish essays that apply philosophical thinking to the technology shaping our lives. From the ethics of self-driving cars to the epistemology of deepfakes, from game theory in open-source software to ancient Greek wisdom about artificial intelligence—each piece connects timeless ideas to the questions that matter right now.
How impossible moral choices play out in AI hiring, content moderation, predictive policing, and medical algorithms.
Start the series →How a 17th-century bet about God applies to climate tech, cybersecurity, pandemic preparedness, and existential AI risk.
Start the series →Cooperation failures in privacy, misinformation, open source, and the gig economy—and what game theory reveals about solutions.
Start the series →Where do we draw the line when technology changes gradually? When does automation become displacement, or influence become manipulation?
Start the series →Alongside philosophy, we share technical deep dives on cloud architecture, serverless deployment, database optimization, and image processing. We also build interactive games that bring philosophical concepts to life—from a Prisoner's Dilemma simulator to a Skepticism Scale quiz.
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