Animal Ethics:
Animal Advocates Should Focus On Anti-speciesism, Not Veganism (German; French)
Notes on the Utility of Anti-Speciesist Advocacy
On Insects and Lexicality
Reducing Extreme Suffering for Non-Human Animals: Enhancement vs. Smaller Future Populations?
Ten Biases Against Prioritizing Wild-Animal Suffering
Underappreciated consequentialist reasons to avoid consuming animal products
Artificial Intelligence:
When Machines Improve Machines
Consciousness – Orthogonal or Crucial?
The future of growth: near-zero growth rates
Response to a Conversation on “Intelligence”
A Contra AI FOOM Reading List
Why Altruists Should Perhaps Not Prioritize Artificial Intelligence: A Lengthy Critique
Is AI Alignment Possible?
Chimps, Humans, and AI: A Deceptive Analogy
Consciousness:
Consciousness Realism
“The Physical” and Consciousness: One World Conforming to Different Descriptions
Thinking of Consciousness as Waves
Physics Is Also Qualia
Epistemology:
Induction Is All We Got
The (Non-)Problem of Induction
Narrative Self-Deception: The Ultimate Elephant in the Brain?
Long-Term vs. Short-Term Focus:
Short-Term vs. Long-Term EA Focus Depends on Annual Extinction Probability
An argument in favor of (fanatical) short-termism?
Ontology / Philosophy of Action:
Ontological Possibilities and the Meaningfulness of Ethics
A Brief Note on Eternalism and Impacting the Future
Explaining Existence
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation May Not Have Significant Ethical Implications
Free Will: Emphasizing Possibilities
Reason:
Social Norms:
In Defense of Nuance
Compassionate Free Speech
Why altruists should be cooperative
Suffering-Focused Ethics:
The Harm of Death
Suffering, Infinity, and Universe Anti-Natalism
Darwinian Intuitions and the Moral Status of Death
Why I Used to Consider the Absence of Sentience Tragic
Suffering-Focused Ethics
The Principle of Sympathy for Intense Suffering
Moral Circle Expansion Might Increase Future Suffering
On purported positive goods “outweighing” suffering
Suffering and happiness: morally symmetric or orthogonal?
Note on Pummer’s “Worseness of nonexistence”
Suffering-focused ethics and the importance of happiness
Value Lexicality:
Lexical views without abrupt breaks
Clarifying lexical thresholds
Space Colonization and S-Risks:
Expected suffering on Earth vs. “weak” space expansion
On fat-tailed distributions and s-risks
Sustainable Activism and Productivity:
Resources for Sustainable Activism
Tips for overcoming low back pain
Old Blog:
Quora Exchanges with David Pearce:
On reference anti-realism
On personal identity
On the nature of mathematics
