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Nathan Barnard

@nathan-barnard.bsky.social
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Helping people is good | Empirical evidence is important | Blog at thegoodblog.substack.com

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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Lots of people who have primarily known me over the last two years I think have a pretty incorrect impression of me in a lot of ways because I've spent the last 2 years being seriously mentally ill for a year and then moderately mentally ill for a year.
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911-blondie.bsky.social @911-blondie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
found writing really brutal for the last 3 weeks, and now it's so easy
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Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The audiobook for Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is 70% off until January 2! Excellent stocking stuffer for anyone who wants to bask in misery about pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes during the holidays :)
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70% OFF Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pande...
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 04/12/2024
Ingrid Newkirk, the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (@officialpeta.bsky.social), talks about the disturbing reality of animal experimentation, highlighting the many animals subjected to tests that cause them to suffer without benefitting humans.
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Ingrid Newkirk on Animal Experimentation
YouTube video by Peter Singer
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
does anyone have strong nuclear winter takes
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Literally all of mine are children's authors.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 29/11/2024
Verified my account, so my handle is now my (new) domain name, alexlizhill.com (which is where you can find my Substack now). It was super easy, see bsky.social/about/blog/4...
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alexlizhill.com | Alex Hill | Substack
Former logician. Aspiring health economist. Thinking about philosophy, econ, public health, history, feminism, and lots of other things! Click to read alexlizhill.com, by Alex Hill, a Substack publica...
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
a different tone from the rest of my blog open.substack.com/pub/thegoodb...
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Ranking the Narnia books
It's my blog and I'll write what I want to
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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We've just launched our AI Benchmarking Hub! This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8) epoch.ai/blog/introdu...
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A reply to a Michael Huemer post from march thegoodblog.substack.com/p/a-response...
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A response to Michael Huemer on why progressives like Islam
I initially wrote this as a note which I couldn't post and it would make me sad if I couldn't post it somehow
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It's kinda wild that Messi is inhumanly good and a better player is kinda obviously possible (more two-footed, faster, taller, probably)
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had about three weeks 2 years when my OCD was sufficiently bad that I strongly preferred to be asleep than being awake, and I tried to be asleep a lot. I think this is the only sustained period of my life that has been net negative from a self-interested point of view.
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Both medication and therapy have been very helpful for me in managing OCD
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I think this is basically bad. This looks to me like a pretty base form of social conservatism that is opposed to difference and creativity outside of an established mould.
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The amount of nate silver hate is bizarre.
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi I'm nathan and my handwriting is illegile and I can't spell
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Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan @rossaokod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Open Phil is hiring a Program Officer to lead new program on economic growth in LMICs Deadline 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth. Can be based anywhere! JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth Rationale: bit.ly/lmicgrowth-research Referrals: bit.ly/openphil-referrals 1/n
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Program Officer, Economic Growth in LMICs
Open Philanthropy is looking to hire a Program Officer to lead our new program: economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've used the term "vegetative state" myself in the past, but the whole category needs retiring now, for reasons I explain in this piece for Stat News. www.statnews.com/2024/11/20/v...
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The term ‘vegetative state’ has no place in modern medicine
Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position to make that diagnosis.
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
currently writing terribly
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Back in 1996, 88% of all eggs in the UK were laid by hens kept in cages. In the latest data this is down to 28%. A big win in improving animal welfare.
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
it's pretty cool watching a network effect in real time
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
started reading Augustine's Confessions
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Luxembourg has double the population of Iceland. Feel like Luxembourg really needs to up its game.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...
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The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
6.30pm Tue 3 Dec | Jonathan Birch | Free public event at LSE
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
had such a pleasant day today
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Looking for book recommendations
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Does anyone have any contemporary romance recommendations? (currently reading icebreaker)
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Notably, I'm currently being paid by the hour for the work I'm doing, and I'm much less motivated to work than I have been at various times in the past despite much lower immediate private returns
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Nathan Barnard @nathan-barnard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Something that is unfortunate but I think true is that I work significantly harder when I have a greater degree of negatively valenced emotions associated with working
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