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Philosophy.
Wisdom, ethics, and first principles.
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A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Been Vindicated
Those who were hysterical in 2016 were substantially correct in their predictions about Trump
Humanism and Its Discontents
Essays about technology and the human
Gaius Blossius, the revolutionary Stoic
Who said Stoicism is about quietism and inaction?
Talking With Simon Goldstein About Why Biological Naturalism is False
Watch now (78 mins) | The leading theory for ruling out AI consciousness is very implausible
Nature is Wrong About AI Consciousness
Three eminent thinkers published a piece in Nature arguing that AI is very unlikely to be conscious. Their arguments are unsuccessful.
The Bots Are Just The Closers
A Movement Understanding Itself In Real Time at the People’s AI Assembly in New York
Thinking about the future of AI shouldn’t feel like choosing from a buffet
The world doesn’t react to the vibes we want to give off
Buying lottery tickets makes sense
Some speculations about fantasy, anticipation, dread, and the shortage of scarcity
Private Law For AIs
Why giving AI the ability to own property, enforce contracts, and sue would benefit humans
On the indispensability of logic
The Discourses of Epictetus, 1.17
If Every Blade of Grass Screamed
Morning fields of amber pain
Continuing the Fight for the Living World with Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
Reflections from the first leg of the End Times Fascism book tour and where we go from here.
AI Is Killing Higher Ed. Here’s How to Save It.
What university administrators must do about rampant cheating with ChatGPT
Nietzsche at the mosque
A lesson from my days as a teenage heretic
On Believing What We Want Others to Believe
How a powerful ‘social diffusion bias’ drives politics, media, and the madness of culture wars
Effective Altruists Should Grow a Spine
Your fave is problematic effective altruism
Video: How to be Stoic
Episode 30 of Ars Vivendi: Conversations on the art of living
Can chatbots cure loneliness?
Podcast with Robert Wright
Schmotte and Bailey: Pledge
A common complaint about EA is definitively wrong
Intifada Everywhere All at Once
On the other October 7th
Conceptual stretching: why everyone you dislike is a fascist, or a communist, or both – Part II
The Right side of the equation
The direction I’d like for effective altruism
Planting a flag for the version of EA I want to promote and grow
Giant Dialogues
Do giants matter in the aggregate more than humans?
After a month speaking to packed rooms, I can report back: Readers are fired up!
Dispatches from a four-week, fifteen-city whirlwind book tour across North America, UK & Ireland
Conceptual stretching: why everyone you dislike is a fascist, or a communist, or both – Part I
A handy-dandy field guide to the (Far) Left and the (Far) Right
Leif Wenar’s Bad Criticisms of Effective Altruism
Is Sam Bankman Fried the person who “most fully lived out [Effective Altruism’s] credo to do the most good with the resources available”
*Of Course* Conscious AI Would Matter Morally
Assuming it has reasonable amounts of welfare. And it likely will.
Ye Have Troubled Me
Why Israel Must Reclaim the Monopoly of Violence from Jewish Extremism in the West Bank