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Joseph Chapa
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The "Humanity by Proxy" Book
This post is a little different. First, this week marks my one-year anniversary on Substack. This is, in fact, weekly post number 52! Second, my book came out this week! Humanity by Proxy: Essays at…
Life is Hard
At a budget hotel in Lexington, Massachusetts, my team of Air Force reserve officers and government civilians working on AI policy gathered around the bar. We had just finished our annual Department…
Noumena and Phenomena
Network Rail chose to delay several freight and passenger trains in Lancashire, England recently because of damage to a rail bridge. Following minor tremors, someone posted a photo showing severe…
Culture Eats Trash Cans for Breakfast
A brief note before I begin: as you may have noticed, I took two weeks off from publishing here. I appreciate your patience. When I decided last January to publish these newsletters every Thursday, I…
Moral Injury and War
Many years ago, we stood up a new M-1B Predator squadron—the 20th Reconnaissance Squadron. The last time the squadron had been activated was during the Vietnam War, when US Air Force pilots flew…
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
You probably don’t remember 110 film. It doesn’t come in a cylindrical can like 35mm film. It comes preloaded on a roll that looks a little like an old phone receiver—two small, black cylinders…
Thanksgiving
I got bit by the publishing bug in 2013. I was applying to graduate schools and I didn’t have a writing sample from my undergraduate days that I was happy with. So, I decided to write a new paper.…
Hallucinations Are in The Air
Glen Powell hosted SNL last weekend. It was one of the best episodes I’ve seen in awhile. (Beware, spoilers).In Powell’s opening monologue, he tells the story of the first time he was supposed to…
Forgiveness Isn't Human
It’s easy to be vindictive, to be to be selfish. It’s easier to burn bridges than it is to mend them.The quotation that keeps coming to mind is from Julius Campbell in Boaz Yakin’s 2000 classic,…
AI Boom or AI Bubble?
I was writing something this week that caused me to look up what movie contains the line, “I’m gonna look out for myself, and I’m gonna get mine.” (Do you know the movie?). I consulted Google search…
Language and Medicine Cups
Note:This excerpt is part of a longer, unpublished project on language and artificial intelligence.“Fine,” my dad said. “Take the medicine if you want. If you don’t want to take it, that’s fine,…
A Day at Google
I was at Google’s headquarters (The “Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California last month for the Imagination in Action conference. There is plenty I could write about—a Distinguished Researcher at…
A Love Letter
When I was young, I used to build those plastic model airplanes you can find at hobby stores. When they were finished, instead of putting them on a shelf, my dad helped me to hang them from the…
The Era of AI Slop Has Arrived
I couldn’t sign a PDF. I don’t know why I couldn’t sign it. I could sign other PDFs, just not this one. I finally joined a Teams call with an IT technician. He took control of my computer and checked…
Efficient AI
When I was about 8 years old, my family and a bunch of other families from my church participated in a jog-a-thon. We asked friends and neighbors to support us by pledging a certain number of dollars…
'Thunderbolts'
My Grandpa used to do a magic trick with his dog, Halley. He’d tell gullible audiences (usually us kids) that Halley knew how to count. Then he’d hold out a milkbone and tell Halley, “count to…
Plato Had Some Thoughts on LLMs... Sort Of
The global AI phenomenon we are all living through began in 2022 when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a chatbot based on a large language model called GPT-3. Within months, ChatGPT had gained 100 million…
What I learned at Stanford about Digital Twins
When I was 22 years old, I fell in young love with a girl named Megan. I had packed all of my worldly possessions into the back of my used Toyota Rav4 and stopped in Pennsylvania both to pick Megan…
Technical People and Nontechnical People
There’s a line in C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy that sticks with me. In Out of The Silent Planet, the first book in the series, the protagonist, Dr. Ransom, is speaking to the villain, Professor…
The Value of Silence
I pushed the throttles up slightly, increasing power and I banked ever so slightly to the left and then back to the right. This put a little extra lateral space between me and the lead aircraft. As I…
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Views Expressed Podcast has published 51 episodes since January 2025, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
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