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Babies, Bathwater, and Effective Altruism
After Trump’s Department of War tweeted its opposition to effective altruism, there was suddenly a lot of social media discourse about EA.
Much viral mockery focused on (i) Dylan Matthews’ Vox post on how the cost of repairing Notre Dame c...
The Rigor-Reach Dilemma
Folks used to criticize Effective Altruism for being insufficiently open to (presumed) directionally helpful but hard-to-measure efforts to address large-scale problems at their root. While the charge strikes me as misdirected,1 I certainly...
The Commander’s Comfort
I’ve been testing Claude Opus 5.5’s design and animation skills the past couple of days, and was impressed with how this turned out:
Watch in full screen HD to catch more of the small details. And maybe read Shuffling Around Expected Value...
Review of Living in a Strange World
I recently reviewed Caspar Hare’s Living in a Strange World for Ethics. The journal will presumably paywall the official paginated version of my review, but here’s the plain text “pre-print”, in case it’s of broader interest…
Living in a S...
Hostility Requires a Warrant
We should only express hostility toward targets who truly deserve it—that is, who are blameworthy. (Initiating unwarranted hostility sure seems like a bad thing.)1 I further claim that someone who is being entirely reasonable in pursuit of...
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