The Top Ten Posts of 2017

I'm going to keep the end of year navel gazing to a minimum this year. Here are the 'top' ten substantive blog posts that I wrote this year, according to page views. The first one is actually the second most-viewed post on this blog of all time, largely due to the fact that it briefly made the front page of Reddit.

• (1) 'Can you be friends with a robot? Aristotelian Friendship and Robotics' (February)

• (2) 'The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction' (May)

• (3) 'Understanding the Experience Machine Argument' (January)

• (4) 'Slaves to the Machine: Understanding the Paradox of Transhumanism' (July)

• (5) 'Hume's Objections to the Design Argument - Part One' (January)

• (6) 'The Ethics of Crash Optimisation Algorithms' (April)

• (7) 'Freedom and the Unravelling Problem in Quantified Work' (October)

• (8) 'The "In Principle" Objection to Privatisation' (August)

• (9) 'Algocracy as Hypernudging: A New Way to Understand the Threat of Algocracy' (January)

• (10) 'Cognitive Scarcity and Artificial Intelligence: How Assistive AI could alleviate Inequality' with Miles Brundage (May)

As a bonus, here are three posts that I liked but didn't seem to excite the interests of as many readers:

• 'The Ethics of Apologies: Why, when and how' (December)

• 'The Moral Problem of Accelerating Change' (September)

• 'The Tell-Tale Brain: The Effects of Predictive Brain Implants on Autonomy' (June)

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