Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

Or How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love AI

The Dangerous Utopian Belief in a Hive Minded Collectivist Super-Organism

The cheapest product to sell has always been something that doesn’t exist.

One of the most reliable sources of philosophical nonsense is the idea that somewhere floating in the heavens just out of view is a pristine set of universal rules for objective moral truth.

Debates over altruism pervade moral philosophy, politics and social groups.

This substack is largely focused on exposing philosophical nonsense.

In very different films, the director’s penchant for playing with time is in service to a larger concern about human bonds across eras.

Human behavior is driven by self-interest, not morality.

Basic Facts to Cut Through the Cobwebs

Sean Carrol’s conversation on Mindscape with Peter Singer released April 20 (http://sites.libsyn.com/604590/351-peter-singer-on-maximizing-good-for-all-sentient-creatures) is a great talk that is an a...

Kash Patel recently made headlines for chugging a beer after Team USA won the gold medal in ice hockey in the 2026 Olympic Games.

Why are Philosophers so Obtuse about Nonhuman Sentience?

One of the supposedly great problems of philosophy is the nature of the human self.

Yudkowsky’s interminable doomer post on X Thanks for reading!

Solving the Biggest Problems in Philosophy the Easy Way, with the Mean Cold Hard Facts