Benjamin Hause (@hausebenjamin) 's Twitter Profile
Benjamin Hause

@hausebenjamin

philosophy, effective altruism; building an app to offset your ecological footprint

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Noah Smith 🐇 (@noahpinion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/OK, I guess I'll tweet something about the Supreme Court. The Court is kind of going crazy right now, with a bunch of activist decisions that most people hate. As a result, confidence in the Court is at a historic low.

1/OK, I guess I'll tweet something about the Supreme Court. 

The Court is kind of going crazy right now, with a bunch of activist decisions that most people hate. As a result, confidence in the Court is at a historic low.
Benjamin Hause (@hausebenjamin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Utilitarianism is too demanding. Traditional deontology is not demanding enough. I defend progressive deontology: the demandingness of morality is a function of how good the world already is. open.substack.com/pub/benjaminha…

Nathan P. Goodman (@nathanpgoodman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I see a lot of discourse about "open borders" happening on here. So I'll do a brief 🧵with some links to sources that present arguments for open borders. Immigration restrictions are among the most harmful forms of state coercion, and free movement is very important.

Giving Multiplier (@givemultiplier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to FarmKind (farmkind.giving) on their launch! FarmKind is a new donation platform inspired by Giving Multiplier's research-based model of "head and heart" giving, with a focus on factory farming. Check out their blog and socials for engaging content!

Lewis Bollard (@lewis_bollard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not all meat is equal in the animal suffering it creates. A surprisingly good predictor of the suffering footprint of meat is its color. The lighter the meat, the worse the intensity and duration of suffering behind it. This is true for three separate reasons...

Not all meat is equal in the animal suffering it creates.

A surprisingly good predictor of the suffering footprint of meat is its color.

The lighter the meat, the worse the intensity and duration of suffering behind it.

This is true for three separate reasons...
Lewis Bollard (@lewis_bollard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There's so much confusion about what "humane" labels on meat and eggs mean. To some they ensure the animals had a good life. To others they're totally meaningless. Neither view is accurate. And the confusion is largely the government's fault...

Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New episode w Lewis Bollard - a deep dive on the surprising economics of the meat industry. 0:00:00 – The astonishing efficiency of factory farming 0:07:18 – It was a mistake making this about diet 0:09:54 – Tech that’s sparing 100s of millions of animals/year 0:16:16 –

Jake (@justjake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What we do for money, what we choose to build These say a lot about who we are I work hard every day because this is not the future I would like to live in

Benjamin Hause (@hausebenjamin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine almost living long enough to reach the age of human immortality but then you die and just have to be reincarnated as a cockroach forever

Imagine almost living long enough to reach the age of human immortality but then you die and just have to be reincarnated as a cockroach forever