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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 recently published a thought-provoking article entitled “What A Woman Is,” in which she discusses issues related to gender…
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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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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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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Spaced Repetition as a Tool Against Anxiety and Depression
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Playing Word Games With the Woke
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America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
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Make Final Exams Worth 100% of Student's Grades
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Free College Education is Worse Than Useless
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Contra Aella on What a Woman Is
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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.
Mar 18
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Praying for Simulator Intervention
An essay in which I provide disconfirming evidence that we are living in a simulation
Mar 12
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Adolescent Liberation
The case for a consistent application of a core tenet of progressivism
Mar 8
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Make Final Exams Worth 100% of Student's Grades
I propose a grading system which I believe is more accurate, ethical, conducive to learning and less stressful.
Mar 7
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Huemer's Reincarnation Argument is Evidence for the Existence of Souls
My favorite philosopher Michael Huemer has an interesting article entitled “Existence if Evidence of Immortality” arguing for reincarnation which I…
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Spaced Repetition as a Tool Against Anxiety and Depression
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Playing Word Games With the Woke
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America in 2072: A Society Stratified by Genetic Enhancement
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Make Final Exams Worth 100% of Student's Grades
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Free College Education is Worse Than Useless
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Contra Aella on What a Woman Is
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