And Behind Door #3...

Thursday January 05, 2017

•  artificial intelligence •  ethics •  JHU •  JHU/APL •  mathematics •  media studies •  operations research •  probability •  Star Trek • 

I am in Atlanta right now and tomorrow morning I am giving a talk on the SMBC cartoon, “An Ethical Trilemma”:


Despite the punchline, “So far, no ethicists are impressed with the Monty Hall Trolley Problem,” I am impressed with the problem. It represents a much more interesting problem than the comic gives it credit for. You can check out my slides here:


Also, as an aside, this is my first presentation since going to work for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. So that’s kinda cool!