Joe Chapa
@joechapa.bsky.social
Air Force officer, pilot, Oxford Philosophy PhD. Author, "Is Remote Warfare Moral?" http://tinyurl.com/y5rmeyn2 This is a personal account.
"No doubt, the day’s talk of throttle settings and aerial tactics drew the old guys into a headspace they hadn’t often occupied. Memories turned to their aircraft and their war."
Moral Injury and War
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Moral Injury and War
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Moral Injury and War
The Just War Tradition as a thin veneer of armor
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December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"No doubt, the day’s talk of throttle settings and aerial tactics drew the old guys into a headspace they hadn’t often occupied. Memories turned to their aircraft and their war."
Moral Injury and War
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Moral Injury and War
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Thanksgiving
Here's just one of the many things I'm thankful for.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This seems as good a time as any to admit that, between the time that the first Harry Potter book came out and when the movie came out, I thought Hermione was pronounced "Her-me-own." Reading is hard.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This seems as good a time as any to admit that, between the time that the first Harry Potter book came out and when the movie came out, I thought Hermione was pronounced "Her-me-own." Reading is hard.
In case you missed it, this week in Views Expressed, I write about Boaz Yakin's *Remember The Titans*, HBO's *Task,* Lin Manuel Miranda's *Hamilton*, and forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Isn't Human
It's a superpower
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November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In case you missed it, this week in Views Expressed, I write about Boaz Yakin's *Remember The Titans*, HBO's *Task,* Lin Manuel Miranda's *Hamilton*, and forgiveness.
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chapainsights.substack.com/p/forgivenes...
Art for the next Substack post... I kinda like it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Art for the next Substack post... I kinda like it.
Today, in Views Expressed, what happens when the creepiness of an AI innovation outweighs its usefulness?
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A Day at Google
When creepiness is downstream from technology development
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October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Today, in Views Expressed, what happens when the creepiness of an AI innovation outweighs its usefulness?
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ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, we can use AI for the knowledge play, or for the efficiency play, but if we muddle the distinction, we probably won't get either.
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The Era of AI Slop Has Arrived
You must choose the knowledge play or the efficiency play, but you can't have both.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, we can use AI for the knowledge play, or for the efficiency play, but if we muddle the distinction, we probably won't get either.
chapainsights.substack.com/p/the-era-of...
chapainsights.substack.com/p/the-era-of...
Today in War on The Rocks, lessons learned from our efforts to incorporate generative AI into the joint planning process.
Check it out.
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Check it out.
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Human-Machine Planning: AI Lessons from the Marine Command and General Staff College
Generative AI is here, but we don’t quite know what to do with it. Across both industry and the military, enthusiasm has outpaced results. Companies
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October 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today in War on The Rocks, lessons learned from our efforts to incorporate generative AI into the joint planning process.
Check it out.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/huma...
Check it out.
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This week in Views Expressed, the whole tech world seems optimized for efficiency. But there are spaces in life that we may want to protect from efficiency--places where the inefficiency is everything. Read more in my free Substack newsletter.
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Efficient AI
Inefficient relationships
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October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This week in Views Expressed, the whole tech world seems optimized for efficiency. But there are spaces in life that we may want to protect from efficiency--places where the inefficiency is everything. Read more in my free Substack newsletter.
chapainsights.substack.com/p/efficient-ai
chapainsights.substack.com/p/efficient-ai
Today in Views Expressed, an AI-flavored review of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts.”
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'Thunderbolts'
A Movie We Probably All Need Right Now
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September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today in Views Expressed, an AI-flavored review of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts.”
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This week in Views Expressed, AI-generated video and audio are getting really good. They're getting so good that we might be able to create AI proxies for ourselves.
But should we?
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But should we?
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What I learned at Stanford about Digital Twins
And why I remain skeptical
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September 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This week in Views Expressed, AI-generated video and audio are getting really good. They're getting so good that we might be able to create AI proxies for ourselves.
But should we?
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But should we?
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I thought the Imagination in Action panel on AI in Defense at Stanford today went great!
(Stanford is as beautiful a place as everyone says)
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(Stanford is as beautiful a place as everyone says)
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September 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I thought the Imagination in Action panel on AI in Defense at Stanford today went great!
(Stanford is as beautiful a place as everyone says)
www.imaginationinaction.co
(Stanford is as beautiful a place as everyone says)
www.imaginationinaction.co
Today in Views Expeessed, how technical do you have to be to understand how AI works?
“There’s a line in C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy that sticks with me…”
Read on at
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“There’s a line in C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy that sticks with me…”
Read on at
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Technical People and Nontechnical People
How much do you need to know about AI?
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September 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Today in Views Expeessed, how technical do you have to be to understand how AI works?
“There’s a line in C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy that sticks with me…”
Read on at
chapainsights.substack.com/p/technical-...
“There’s a line in C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy that sticks with me…”
Read on at
chapainsights.substack.com/p/technical-...
I'm looking forward to speaking at the Imagination in Action conference at Stanford next week. Maybe I'll see you there!
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking at the Imagination in Action conference at Stanford next week. Maybe I'll see you there!
Today in Views Expressed, what is tacit knowledge and why is AI so bad at it?
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The Value of Silence
Why tacit knowledge is AI's Achilles heel
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August 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today in Views Expressed, what is tacit knowledge and why is AI so bad at it?
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I’m grateful to be a guest author in Dr. Jasmine Mote’s “Mental Healthy” newsletter. I wrote about how we should resist AI’s promises of meaningful, fulfilling relationships with chatbots. Check it out!
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Humanity by Proxy: How to resist the temptation to let AI be human for us
A guest post on the promises and perils of chatbot solutions to our relationship woes
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August 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m grateful to be a guest author in Dr. Jasmine Mote’s “Mental Healthy” newsletter. I wrote about how we should resist AI’s promises of meaningful, fulfilling relationships with chatbots. Check it out!
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ICYMI, last week in Views Expressed, building local community amidst the digital onslaught.
"It was special because it was made possible by a moment I shared not online, but at a live concert—not with the internet, but with my local community."
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"It was special because it was made possible by a moment I shared not online, but at a live concert—not with the internet, but with my local community."
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August 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
ICYMI, last week in Views Expressed, building local community amidst the digital onslaught.
"It was special because it was made possible by a moment I shared not online, but at a live concert—not with the internet, but with my local community."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/recommende...
"It was special because it was made possible by a moment I shared not online, but at a live concert—not with the internet, but with my local community."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/recommende...
This week in Views Expressed, how can we prevent misinformaiton in an age of instant answers?
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The Cost of Instant Knowledge
Having information at our fingertips means having misinformation at our fingertips, too.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This week in Views Expressed, how can we prevent misinformaiton in an age of instant answers?
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ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, why has the tech world delivered on sci fi’s promises of computers we can talk to, but not on humanoid robots?
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Blade Runner
Does our dystopian future await us?
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July 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, why has the tech world delivered on sci fi’s promises of computers we can talk to, but not on humanoid robots?
chapainsights.substack.com/p/blade-runner
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The Array published my essay that gives a peak behind the curtain on whether AI reasoning models are really reasoning. Take a look!
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AI is Magic... Sort Of
Why large reasoning models might be little more than a hat trick.
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July 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Array published my essay that gives a peak behind the curtain on whether AI reasoning models are really reasoning. Take a look!
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thearray.hitachivantara.com/en-us/analys...
This week in Views Expressed, what does driving a stick shift have to do with AI and does The Amazing Race hold the key to our technological future??
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June 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This week in Views Expressed, what does driving a stick shift have to do with AI and does The Amazing Race hold the key to our technological future??
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This week in Views Expressed, what's the difference between "authenticity" and "truth" and how much does that matter to our politics?
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Authenticity and Truth
If we prioritize one, do we sacrifice the other?
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June 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This week in Views Expressed, what's the difference between "authenticity" and "truth" and how much does that matter to our politics?
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Yes, there is a pea under there.
And yes, she can feel it.
And yes, she can feel it.
May 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Yes, there is a pea under there.
And yes, she can feel it.
And yes, she can feel it.
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, I wrote about the places in life that will always require a human touch.
"In our age of data-driven decisions & automation, the human element ... is the hardest to measure & as a result, it is the hardest to justify."
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"In our age of data-driven decisions & automation, the human element ... is the hardest to measure & as a result, it is the hardest to justify."
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AI Requires a Human Touch
AI can replace (some of) our work
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May 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed, I wrote about the places in life that will always require a human touch.
"In our age of data-driven decisions & automation, the human element ... is the hardest to measure & as a result, it is the hardest to justify."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/ai-require...
"In our age of data-driven decisions & automation, the human element ... is the hardest to measure & as a result, it is the hardest to justify."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/ai-require...
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed:
"to understand new things, sometimes we need to study old things.
I never understood what my Army & Marine friends meant by “strategic terrain.” ... But then I visited Dover Castle on the south coast of England..."
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"to understand new things, sometimes we need to study old things.
I never understood what my Army & Marine friends meant by “strategic terrain.” ... But then I visited Dover Castle on the south coast of England..."
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AI and the White Cliffs of Dover
How to learn new things by studying very old things
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May 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI, this week in Views Expressed:
"to understand new things, sometimes we need to study old things.
I never understood what my Army & Marine friends meant by “strategic terrain.” ... But then I visited Dover Castle on the south coast of England..."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...
"to understand new things, sometimes we need to study old things.
I never understood what my Army & Marine friends meant by “strategic terrain.” ... But then I visited Dover Castle on the south coast of England..."
chapainsights.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...