Shang Long Yeo, A Bayesian analysis of debunking arguments in ethics - PhilPapers buff.ly/3SY4j00

EA sits in an absolutely fascinating political place: hated by Ted Cruz for being too woke and Timnit Gebru for being too racist 🙃

When Edward Jenner developed his smallpox vaccine in the 1790s, early anti-vaxxers worried that they might grow horns if vaccinated.

When the editor removes my Oxford comma

Not all philosophers who argue for obviously false claims are stupid. For some, this seems to be a competitive performance-art form; a wasteful way of showing off intellectual talent. Arguing true things is easy; arguing false things might wrongly appear courageous and difficult.

Wasteful, paternalistic handout vs. GiveDirectly.org🎃

when you get a tough question after your talk but you have the perfect supplementary slide

imagine writing three critiques just to compensate for being 5’2’’

I'm a single issue voter: I want the world to be a better place

I love voting. as a former gifted child it reminds me of taking standardized tests

Insightful observation

it is interesting watching the network news coverage: the constant cadence of explaining the situation to you but in fact persistently obscurantist, leaving you with the perennial feeling like you are about to understand

“You claim it was a coin flip, yet afterwards I saw the coin and it was clearly completely heads. I am very smart.”

Quite the appropriate day for my article to have received a volume and issue. Check it out at the link below if you want to know why there is so much bullshit in politics. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Pun-based titles that no one gets

If we could show one chart to every US voter each day, today I would show them this one:

"Expected Value, to a Point" is now out in Noûs (and, happily, open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

It's so painful to look at these numbers and to even try to feel their full moral significance. Every 3 minutes, somebody's parent or sibling or friend. Every 31 minutes, somebody's baby. Each one preventable with about a hundredth of one cent per American.

"all's fair in love and war" no! those are two domains in which it's very important that certain actions are off-limits