Thinking Much Better

Music Review Madness 3

Hope ya like EMOOOOOOOOO!

Why is There No Blog Post Here?

Aggregation is still hard.

Music Review Madness 2

Hope ya like variety!

The Sound of the 2020s

This is an RYMcore household.

Environmentalists and Non-Consequentialists Should be Nervous about Ecosystem Restoration

The ethics are probably more complex than you thought.

The Case for Evaluators to "Finish the Job"

Effective Altruist charity evaluators can do more.

Music Review Madness 1

Hope ya like prog!

Rationalist Movie Reviews

I’m not over-interpreting, you’re just under-interpreting.

The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Wellbeing

Devin’s thesis about subjective time in ethics.

We Have Not Been Invited to the Future: e/acc and the Narrowness of the Way Ahead

Obvious and subtle disagreements with that one Twitter movement.

Appendices: "Some Observations on Alcoholism"

Longest post… so far!

[April Fools] Towards A Better Moral Circle

The overminds have come to make an announcement.

Contra Ozy Brennan on Sex Addiction

Clarifying and calibrating our ideas about addiction.

How the Fun Homes Work

Analyzing Bechdel’s graphic memoir and its musical adaptation.

What Doesn't Matter To (or About) Free Will

Much of the ‘free will debate’ is irrelevant.

Some Problems with Comparing Factory Farming to the Holocaust

Pretty much what the title says.

A Taxonomy of Right Wing Thought

Different political philosophies within the right wing.

Some Observations on Alcoholism

Some Changes to ThinkingMuchBetter

A quick announcement.

Suicide is not "Selfish" or "Cowardly": In Defense of Focusing on the Person Whose Life is at Stake

Clarity in the face of oblivion.

What is the Meaning of Life?

Devin takes on a classic philosophy problem.

Reaction to "Apology for an Old Email"

Devin talks about Bostrom’s racist-email scandal.

On Fetuses and Farms

Vegan, but also pro-choice?

Devin on the EA Forum: Volume 1

Four short EA Forum posts.

A simple way YouTube could help Shorts creators

An idea I had for Shorts ads.

Marginal Cases, On Trial

Explanation and deep-dive of a key argument behind ethical veganism.

A Quick List of Some Problems in AI Alignment As A Field

Problems and suggestions for AI alignment as a scientific field.

Quick Thoughts on A.I. Governance

Sketches of AI governance.

Consequentialism: A Defense/Manifesto

Consequentialism is good.

Appendix: "Immortality and its Critics: Why Rationalism Should not Treat its Darling as Unpopular or Simple"

Devin changes his mind about pop culture’s take about immortality upon.

Don't Look Up (Film Review)

Vice (2018) is better.

The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright

Devin’s biggest post (so far…)

Reaction and Reply to Sasha Chapin on Bad In-group Norms

Quick thoughts and meditations.

There Meat Come A Scandal...

The meat and the maker.

Effective Altruism, Before the Memes Started

Our third article with Glen Weyl in it, I think.

How Much of a Ratfic is Dr. Stone?

The anime with the science guy rebuilding tech.

Expected Value and Normative Gettier Problems

When your beliefs aren’t convincing enough to shape your beliefs.

Pascal's Wager is S-Tier

I showed Devin a GMSkeptic video like a year ago. This is what happened next.

The Shallowness of Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is not as useful as you think.

Kalish Versus RadicalXChange

Let’s talk about the RadicalXChange community.

Weyl Versus the Rationalists

Let’s talk about the Rationality community.

Ditch the President, Vote on the Cabinet

Who should we vote on? Why?

The Dystopian Objection to Cryonics

What happens if you wake up?

The Tragedy of Alternative Voting Methods

Who votes on the voting? What?

Was Mary Shelley Utilitarian? Excerpts from my Senior Capstone

A founder of sci-fi might have been kinda Utilitarian.

Response to: "Why Meat is Moral, and Veggies are Immoral"

Common arguments for eating meat, countered

Appendices:"Complexities of Free Speech: Some Approaches, Problems, and Reasons to Care"

Appendices to the free speech article

Appendices: "If We Talk About the Democratic Problems with Philanthropy, We Should Talk About the Limitations of Democracy"

Appendices to that one article that got some upvotes on reddit

[RETRACTED] Debuggers Make You A Bad Detective

Print statements are fine, Mom! GUH

How Aggregation Can Fail Utilitarianism in the Most Important Ways [Presentation Video]

A video of Devin’s talk at the 2019 RIT Undergraduate Philosophy Conference