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
Artificial Intelligence:
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
In Defense of Nuance
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
Ontology/Philosophy of Physics/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:
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
Value Lexicality:
Lexical views without abrupt breaks
Clarifying lexical thresholds
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
