These past few days there has been a lot of hullabaloo over the fact that one of OpenAI’s advanced, unreleased models hacked an AI startup to mine information from its servers, without being told to do so, and without telling anyone what it was doing.

Jul 17 5 min

Pluralist Priors and Baháʼí Bias

If you read Going Awol, first of all, Hi!

Jul 08 5 min

The Padre Pio Omission Theodicy

In a recent YouTube video, Joe Schmid and I spend two hours CALMLY RANKING theodicies from F tier to S tier (F is worst, and F tier theodicies get DESTROYED; S is best, and S tier theodicies get COMPLEMENTED).

Jun 20 5 min

Is Judas Iscariot in Hell?

"there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out"

Jun 04 5 min

Right-libertarians must believe in God. But if they do, they are doomed!

The title is an exaggeration and an overstatement and a titillating piece of tomfoolery; my argument today will not apply to every right-wing libertarian, and talk of ‘doom’ is wanton fearmongering.

May 18 5 min

Joe Folley tries to escape Islam; fails.

A while back, Joseph Folley locked swords with Philip Goff on Substack over something called the Awesome Evidence Argument.

Mar 29 5 min

Two debates about the existence of God

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Mar 28 5 min

Cope in philosophy of religion

The internet has a useful bit of of verbiage that I think more philosophers of religion—and philosophers in general—should use more often.

Mar 26 5 min

A reply to Lorenzo Elijah, PhD, on the gratitude theory of political obligation

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Mar 14 5 min

How to solve the problem of political obligation

in defence of the gratitude theory

Mar 07 5 min

Links for March

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Feb 20 5 min

Why I'm not spiking my cortisol thinking about the catastrophic risk of eternal hell

a somewhat half-baked objection to Eric Sampson's argument that hell should be a longtermist priority

Feb 04 5 min

New Blog Announcement! (Baháʼí: An Independent Investigation)

You only ever hear people talk about their religious investigations in the past tense.

Jan 30 5 min

Two Updates

count 'em, two!

Jan 21 5 min

Contra Sijuwade

contra the conative case for Christ

Jan 13 5 min

Pascal's Wager Without Purple Pixies

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Jan 04 5 min

If this is what life in groups is like...

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Dec 31 5 min

Going Awol: 2025 in Review!

2025 was a good year for analytic philosophy, the art of writing, and the reading crisis—specifically as it pertains to my newsletter.

Dec 27 5 min

How you, today, can become less of an ideological robot

the ideological turing test comes to life!

Dec 22 5 min

Fiddlesticks! I Was Wrong About The Fine-Tuning Argument

For my sins, I recently argued that fine-tuning is evidence that immaterial souls are metaphysically impossible (and thereby evidence against theism, if God is an immaterial soul).

Dec 19 5 min

The Case For Prayer, For People Who Don't Yet Believe

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Dec 15 5 min

"Wake up, the new Knives Out is over"

[cw: contains spoilers]

Dec 06 5 min

Baháʼí Philosophy of Religion w/ Joshua Hall

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Dec 04 5 min

The pre-existence theodicy, debunked.

three powerful objections

Dec 02 5 min

6 Theses on Faith

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