B. Scot Rousse
@bs-rousse.bsky.social
Philosopher | Drummer
Philosopher in Residence at Topos Institute
https://www.curiositycraft.ai
https://withoutwhy.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/bsrousse
Philosopher in Residence at Topos Institute
https://www.curiositycraft.ai
https://withoutwhy.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/bsrousse
The path of human flourishing is the path of giving a damn.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The path of human flourishing is the path of giving a damn.
New post on my philosophy blog, Without Why! I share a philosophy talk I gave explaining why humans are not LLMs. Link is bio!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New post on my philosophy blog, Without Why! I share a philosophy talk I gave explaining why humans are not LLMs. Link is bio!
We are not on the verge of a post-human future of AI-automated work. Instead, we are entering a more demanding future where human involvement matters more than ever.
Link is bio!
Link is bio!
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We are not on the verge of a post-human future of AI-automated work. Instead, we are entering a more demanding future where human involvement matters more than ever.
Link is bio!
Link is bio!
Every new tool we build is also building us. As we design AI: what kind of humans are we designing ourselves to be?
Check out my new post, occasioned by an awesome talk Terry gave yesterday at the Topos Institute colloquium, "What's Up with AI." Link in bio!
Check out my new post, occasioned by an awesome talk Terry gave yesterday at the Topos Institute colloquium, "What's Up with AI." Link in bio!
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Every new tool we build is also building us. As we design AI: what kind of humans are we designing ourselves to be?
Check out my new post, occasioned by an awesome talk Terry gave yesterday at the Topos Institute colloquium, "What's Up with AI." Link in bio!
Check out my new post, occasioned by an awesome talk Terry gave yesterday at the Topos Institute colloquium, "What's Up with AI." Link in bio!
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I talk about the importance of helping young people develop skills for using AI to relate to the world in active wonder and inquiry, rather than passive consumption of “content.” Link is biographical!
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I talk about the importance of helping young people develop skills for using AI to relate to the world in active wonder and inquiry, rather than passive consumption of “content.” Link is biographical!
New post ! Why doesn’t progress in LLMs does not easily translate into progress in robotics? It helps to connect back to Hubert Dreyfus’s observation in 1972 that “the meaningful objects among which we live are not a model of the world stored in our mind or brain; they are the world itself.”
September 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
New post ! Why doesn’t progress in LLMs does not easily translate into progress in robotics? It helps to connect back to Hubert Dreyfus’s observation in 1972 that “the meaningful objects among which we live are not a model of the world stored in our mind or brain; they are the world itself.”
New Post on Without Why! I discuss the recent conversation between Brendan McCord and Jonathan Bi at Cosmos Institute bout AI and human autonomy. I show that flourishing in the age of AI automation requires more than autonomy: it requires a revitalization of our capacities to care. Link in bio !
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New Post on Without Why! I discuss the recent conversation between Brendan McCord and Jonathan Bi at Cosmos Institute bout AI and human autonomy. I show that flourishing in the age of AI automation requires more than autonomy: it requires a revitalization of our capacities to care. Link in bio !
New post in my Heidegger series ! Link is biographical.
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New post in my Heidegger series ! Link is biographical.
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I sketch a phenomenology of care. Today we need to learn to care more about care. Check it out. Link is biographical!
July 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I sketch a phenomenology of care. Today we need to learn to care more about care. Check it out. Link is biographical!
Who cares about values? What are “values” ? What if they are an inadequate abstraction from our care? These are the questions i ask in my most recent talk at Topos in Oxford.
youtu.be/VJZUZ37gj2Y?...
youtu.be/VJZUZ37gj2Y?...
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Who cares about values? What are “values” ? What if they are an inadequate abstraction from our care? These are the questions i ask in my most recent talk at Topos in Oxford.
youtu.be/VJZUZ37gj2Y?...
youtu.be/VJZUZ37gj2Y?...
Went punting in Oxford, after attending an amazing seminar on “AI and the Future of Human Autonomy” in London, convened by Brendan McCord of Cosmos Institute and Liberty Fund. PS- check out the new post on my philosophy page, Without Why! Link is biographical.
June 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Went punting in Oxford, after attending an amazing seminar on “AI and the Future of Human Autonomy” in London, convened by Brendan McCord of Cosmos Institute and Liberty Fund. PS- check out the new post on my philosophy page, Without Why! Link is biographical.
This week I wrote a post on Heidegger’s notion of Dasein. To be Dasein is to be intrinsically susceptible to outstanding questions of worth, care, and mattering. Click the link in my bio to read more !
June 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This week I wrote a post on Heidegger’s notion of Dasein. To be Dasein is to be intrinsically susceptible to outstanding questions of worth, care, and mattering. Click the link in my bio to read more !
What if AI could help kids grow more curious, not more distracted?
Join us for a 1-hour webinar on Monday, June 2 at 6pm PT to explore how AI can support wonder, connection, and lifelong learning—for kids and their grownups.
#DigitalLiteracy
#CuriosityCraft
#TechForGood
#EdTech
#HumanCenteredAI
Join us for a 1-hour webinar on Monday, June 2 at 6pm PT to explore how AI can support wonder, connection, and lifelong learning—for kids and their grownups.
#DigitalLiteracy
#CuriosityCraft
#TechForGood
#EdTech
#HumanCenteredAI
May 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What if AI could help kids grow more curious, not more distracted?
Join us for a 1-hour webinar on Monday, June 2 at 6pm PT to explore how AI can support wonder, connection, and lifelong learning—for kids and their grownups.
#DigitalLiteracy
#CuriosityCraft
#TechForGood
#EdTech
#HumanCenteredAI
Join us for a 1-hour webinar on Monday, June 2 at 6pm PT to explore how AI can support wonder, connection, and lifelong learning—for kids and their grownups.
#DigitalLiteracy
#CuriosityCraft
#TechForGood
#EdTech
#HumanCenteredAI
What do punk and philosophy have in common? How do they both open a space of meaning and care in our technological world? I share some thoughts about this in my post this week on Without Why. Check it out!
without-why.ghost.io/philosophers...
without-why.ghost.io/philosophers...
May 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What do punk and philosophy have in common? How do they both open a space of meaning and care in our technological world? I share some thoughts about this in my post this week on Without Why. Check it out!
without-why.ghost.io/philosophers...
without-why.ghost.io/philosophers...
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I explain what I mean by describing LLMs as a “Frictionless Spinning in the Void.” Check it out! Link is biographical.
April 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I explain what I mean by describing LLMs as a “Frictionless Spinning in the Void.” Check it out! Link is biographical.
My new punk band REALISTIC is opening this show tonight in Oakland at the awesome Stork Club. Join us! Get there by 9pm or you will miss our set ⏱️
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My new punk band REALISTIC is opening this show tonight in Oakland at the awesome Stork Club. Join us! Get there by 9pm or you will miss our set ⏱️
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. Link is biographical. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. Link is biographical. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
My talk, “Language, Technology, & Care,” at Topos Institute, is now posted on YouTube. Check it
Out and let me know what you think!
Out and let me know what you think!
March 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My talk, “Language, Technology, & Care,” at Topos Institute, is now posted on YouTube. Check it
Out and let me know what you think!
Out and let me know what you think!
This Thursday, March 20, at 10am Pacific, I'm giving a public, virtual lecture on the topic of "Language, Technology, & Care." The abstract is in the second image.
Link is in my linktree in my bio. Join us!
Link is in my linktree in my bio. Join us!
March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This Thursday, March 20, at 10am Pacific, I'm giving a public, virtual lecture on the topic of "Language, Technology, & Care." The abstract is in the second image.
Link is in my linktree in my bio. Join us!
Link is in my linktree in my bio. Join us!
Giving a talk called “Frictionless Spinning in the Void: AI is not ‘There’” this weekend at the University of Kentucky.
#artificialintelligence
#AI
#philosophy
#Heidegger
#artificialintelligence
#AI
#philosophy
#Heidegger
March 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Giving a talk called “Frictionless Spinning in the Void: AI is not ‘There’” this weekend at the University of Kentucky.
#artificialintelligence
#AI
#philosophy
#Heidegger
#artificialintelligence
#AI
#philosophy
#Heidegger
AI aint’t got no body. Primordial embodied presence in the world is not an algorithmic function.
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AI aint’t got no body. Primordial embodied presence in the world is not an algorithmic function.
Today in Without Why, the video and audio of an interview that I did last year on the topic of “care, machines, and nihilism.”
Image generated through Dall-E: “Here’s the retrofuturistic illustration of ‘Care, Machines, & Nihilism’, visually balancing warmth, structure, and existential void.”
Image generated through Dall-E: “Here’s the retrofuturistic illustration of ‘Care, Machines, & Nihilism’, visually balancing warmth, structure, and existential void.”
February 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Today in Without Why, the video and audio of an interview that I did last year on the topic of “care, machines, and nihilism.”
Image generated through Dall-E: “Here’s the retrofuturistic illustration of ‘Care, Machines, & Nihilism’, visually balancing warmth, structure, and existential void.”
Image generated through Dall-E: “Here’s the retrofuturistic illustration of ‘Care, Machines, & Nihilism’, visually balancing warmth, structure, and existential void.”
Are you ontologically curious? Then this new post on my philosophy newsletter, Without Why, is for you!
without-why.ghost.io/ontology-wha...
without-why.ghost.io/ontology-wha...
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Are you ontologically curious? Then this new post on my philosophy newsletter, Without Why, is for you!
without-why.ghost.io/ontology-wha...
without-why.ghost.io/ontology-wha...
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. This one is members only, but it’s worth it. Check it out!
(Paperclip embrace” is an artwork based on an annoying and ubiquitous thought experiment in the AI-safety literature)
Link is biographical.
#withoutwhy
(Paperclip embrace” is an artwork based on an annoying and ubiquitous thought experiment in the AI-safety literature)
Link is biographical.
#withoutwhy
February 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. This one is members only, but it’s worth it. Check it out!
(Paperclip embrace” is an artwork based on an annoying and ubiquitous thought experiment in the AI-safety literature)
Link is biographical.
#withoutwhy
(Paperclip embrace” is an artwork based on an annoying and ubiquitous thought experiment in the AI-safety literature)
Link is biographical.
#withoutwhy
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The overhyped AI chickens have come home to roost.
January 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The overhyped AI chickens have come home to roost.