AI liberation later

AI liberation later

On rats

I was wrong

People gave their lives to save strangers. You can save them on the cheap.

Critical week for preventing the systematic destruction of state animal welfare laws

An atheist substacker wrote a very good piece laying out the case for atheism. Here's why I don't agree.

How worried should we be?

And why effective altruism is the upgraded form of wokeness

The most important decision that humanity will ever make

Plus Joe Schmid, Brian Cutter, Amos Wollen, Dustin Crummett, Philip Swenson, and I are writing a book defending the existence of God

What the Bible got wrong

How the West failed Rwanda

Why I reject Ethan Muse's defense of hell

The populist descent into madness

Does thinking Elon Musk's cuts caused deaths imply that every single person in the world is a murderer?

Donations matching for effective animal charities + help starting local groups, especially at universities.

It's 2026. You shouldn't still be making Parfit's named first mistake in moral mathematics.

Why I flew across the country to spend many days talking to voters about Alex Bores

If we can replace the factory farms that torture animals by the billions, we should!

On leftist smart

A piece that will piss everyone off

We torture billions of beings that are, in relevant cognitive respects, like some humans

The objections are wrong

How a baby food seller may have caused more deaths than war across a number of years

Hyperpolation is why AI is both so smart and so dumb

Nearly every sentence is wrong, rarely in just one way

Are those knee deep in blood any different from the rest?

Having empathy for others doesn't require weird metaphysics!

Meat is the flesh of tortured innocent animals who did not want to die

Explaining, for those out of the loop, what is coming and how we know

Does the supreme principle of morality say that you matter 360 billion times more than foreign strangers?

The conditions for British farm animals are nightmarishly bad

Pack it up deontologists!

A letter to Gen Alpha

And you should tell your representatives that

How you can prevent the federal government from destroying most animal welfare laws

Almost any other view is more plausible than thinking fine-tuning is brute

Instead shame people for lying

Against absolute rights

If we're going to poison quadrillions of beings to death each year, we should at least try not to make it excruciatingly painful

And whether, for example, they'd vaporize all scientific knowledge

On funerals keeping Africa poor, miracles, effective altruism, cancer, AI preparedness, telescopic altruism, data centers, Sam Bankman Fried, Dominion, fallacies, and love, plus a personal update

How we know continental philosophy is largely nonsense

The dark underbelly of insect farming

But if we shouldn't, God exists

The ubiquity of nonsense

A bunch of big animals went extinct around when humans arrived. Scholars disagree about why.

Leaving a mark on the world