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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

On Critical Social Justice theory and Sesardić’s conjecture

Apr 21

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

Why Critical Social Justice creates confusion in debates about social and political issues.

Apr 13

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If you want to have a productive philosophical conversation, you need to be willing to entertain hypothetical scenarios.

Apr 8

For those unfamiliar, street epistemology is a conversational method of calmly examining an interlocutor’s claims through the socratic method as opposed…

Apr 1

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

Exploring the relationship between Bostrom's simulation argument and utilitarianism.

Mar 18

An essay in which I provide disconfirming evidence that we are living in a simulation

Mar 12

The case for a consistent application of a core tenet of progressivism

Mar 8

I propose a grading system which I believe is more accurate, ethical, conducive to learning and less stressful.

Mar 7

My favorite philosopher Michael Huemer has an interesting article entitled “Existence if Evidence of Immortality” arguing for reincarnation which I…

Mar 5

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👋🏻 Hello! I write about mostly philosophy, culture war, and ethics.

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