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Cracks in the Ivory Tower
The Moral Mess of Higher Education
Jun 18
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Contra Winegard on Moral Expertise
Why I believe a high level of knowledge or skill in moral reasoning is possible
Jun 11
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Why Not Have Mandatory Adult Education?
Pondering compulsory adult education highlights some of the problems with compulsory education for children and adolescents.
Jun 25
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Probabilistic Reasons to Reject Utilitarianism
Some reflections on the Michael Huemer Richard Yetter-Chappell debate about utilitarianism and laying out an ethical intuitionist critique of utilitarianism.
Jun 4
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America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
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Playing Word Games With the Woke
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower
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Spaced Repetition as a Tool Against Anxiety and Depression
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Make Final Exams Worth 100% of Student's Grades
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Why Not Have Mandatory Adult Education?
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America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
My submission to the effective ideas essay contest: "The world in 2072: We want to read about visions of the world 50 years from now."
May 18
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Contra Aella on What a Woman Is
Aella is a Bay Area rationalist-adjacent writer known for writing controversial Twitter polls and investigating issues related to sex and sexuality. She…
Apr 27
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Applying Double Standards to Offensive Beliefs
On Critical Social Justice theory and Sesardić’s conjecture
Apr 21
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Playing Word Games With the Woke
Why Critical Social Justice creates confusion in debates about social and political issues.
Apr 13
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Don't Fight the Hypothetical
If you want to have a productive philosophical conversation, you need to be willing to entertain hypothetical scenarios.
Apr 8
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Street Epistemologists Should Focus On Critical Social Justice Instead of Christianity
For those unfamiliar, street epistemology is a conversational method of calmly examining an interlocutor’s claims through the socratic method as opposed…
Apr 1
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Contra Karnofsky on Future-Proof Ethics
I. Common-Sense vs. Intuition vs. Peer-Cultivation Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of GiveWell and co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, recently wrote an article…
Mar 22
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Utilitarianism Casts Doubt on The Simulation Hypothesis, AI Doomsday and Substrate-Independence
Exploring the relationship between Bostrom's simulation argument and utilitarianism.
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America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
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Playing Word Games With the Woke
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower
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Spaced Repetition as a Tool Against Anxiety and Depression
5
1
Make Final Exams Worth 100% of Student's Grades
3
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Why Not Have Mandatory Adult Education?
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