There Aren't Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat
If we can replace the factory farms that torture animals by the billions, we should!
Philosophy
Bentham's Bulldog.
A blog about utilitarianism, ethics, and effective altruism.
Recent essays
30 of 119Correction
About a year ago, in my article The Grisly Return of Holocaust Denial, I stated that Eric Hunt kidnapped Eli Wiesel.
Thought-Terminating Jargon
On thought being a vehicle for language rather than language being a vehicle for thought
The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History
The factory farms are trying to keep pigs in cages so they don't have to feed them as much. It's up to us to stop them.
Philanthropy Needs Ambitious Projects Immediately
Tens of billions of philanthropic dollars are coming, but we don’t know how to spend them well.
EAG London 2026
The weaving of a beautiful thing
What Happened to Foreign Aid?
After the cataclysm
It Doesn’t Make Sense for Greta Thunberg to Transition to Gaza Activism if She Thinks Climate Change Will Kill Everyone
The people being snarky on the internet are wrong
Why I Don't Buy Any of the Counterexamples to Consequentialism
Utilitarians are right about footbridge, transplant, etc
Smug Internet Leftists
On leftist smart
Read This Book
80,000 hours has a new book, innovatively named "80,000 hours." You should probably read it.
Should Deontologists Assist With Wrongdoing?
A new version of Huemer's paradox of deontology poses a big challenge to deontology
The Inverted Bacteria That Experts Think Might Kill Everyone
Leading scientists produced a 299-page report. They came away terrified.
We Owe Reparations to Blocked Migrants, Not Descendants of Slaves
A piece that will piss everyone off
Mass Torture of Humanlike Minds
We torture billions of beings that are, in relevant cognitive respects, like some humans
Strong Longtermism Is Simply Correct
The objections are wrong
AI Discourse is Haunted by Presentism Bias
Concerns about existing AI are overstated, while concerns about future AI are understated
Extremely Concrete Writing Advice
How to write better
Nestlé Caused Millions of Infant Deaths
How a baby food seller may have caused more deaths than war across a number of years
Beneficence As Opportunity
You--you!--can join an incredible group of people doing ridiculous amounts of good and saving hundreds of thousands of lives
Three Things To Do
Fill out my reader survey, contact your senator, and volunteer for the Alex Bores campaign
Why Can't AI Tell Jokes?
Hyperpolation is why AI is both so smart and so dumb
The New York Post Releases the Most Idiotic Hitpiece I Have Ever Read
Nearly every sentence is wrong, rarely in just one way
Review: The Dying Trade
Are those knee deep in blood any different from the rest?
The Bizarre Twitter Empathy Meltdown
Having empathy for others doesn't require weird metaphysics!
You Should Go Vegan to Stop Facilitating Torture of the Innocent
Meat is the flesh of tortured innocent animals who did not want to die
The Coming Intelligence Explosion
Explaining, for those out of the loop, what is coming and how we know
I Attended A Lecture by William Lane Craig: Here Were My Problems With It
On inflating your case
Expand Your Moral Circle
Why every sentient being matters
Religious People Shouldn't Deny AI Consciousness
The common assumption that they should is completely wrong