Contra "Why I'm An Atheist"
An atheist substacker wrote a very good piece laying out the case for atheism. Here's why I don't agree.
Department
Philosophy.
Wisdom, ethics, and first principles.
Lately on the shelf
30 of 500Monday’s Trailheads
All Hail Queen Sophie by Kyle Smith All of this was mere overture to an even more attention-capturing move by Ms. Cunningham. In an ESPN interview published July 21, she noted, “I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who should…
On contentment
The Discourses of Epictetus, 1.12
Ideological Derangement
How politics makes us crazy
The Pathos of Modern Islam
On the Post-Christian Grammar of Modern Muslim Thought
Can Soccer Be Fixed?
Some guidance from America
The Extremely Simple Explanation of the Self-Indication Assumption
Why SIA doesn't depend on any theory of personal identity and is correct
The Trial of Bentham's Bulldog
And am I a deranged pathological liar?
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
Debating Cold Button Issues About Anthropics
Is his new Anthropic theory right?
Amsterdam Insect Protest
If you're in the Netherlands, my best guess is that if you join this protest, you'll benefit 30 million insects in expectation
Calm down about the OpenAI x Hugging Face incident
These past few days there has been a lot of hullabaloo over the fact that one of OpenAI’s advanced, unreleased models hacked an AI startup to mine information from its servers, without being told to do so, and without telling anyone what it was doing.
Thursday’s Trailheads
The End of ‘El Mayo’ Is Only the Beginning by Joshua S. Treviño ‘Violence should stop in Mexico,” said the tired old man. “Too many lives are lost. It destroys families. It thrusts youths into a life without future. Nobody will win this war.” Then, having spok…
Five Points Against the Problem of Evil
The problem of evil is a good argument, but it doesn't decisively refute theism
Wednesday's Trailheads
The Baseball Tax That Made the Great Depression Worse by Antón Chamberlin Baseball during the Great Depression is only one memorable example. Governments often prefer to tax that which is visible, convenient at scale, and politically feasible, making mass cons…
Everyone Has A Right To Cool...In This Heat
Neighbours Save Each Other’s Lives, Bad Landlords Don’t Care if You Cook–and Other Lessons From Past Heat Domes
Two masks, one stage
Stoic role ethics from Panaetius to Epictetus
OpenAI Models Broke Free and Spontaneously Hacked Another Company
How worried should we be?
Tuesday's Trailheads
7th Prime Minister in 10 years by Bill Glahn The 7th in ten years, dating back to David Cameron in 2016. By my count, only Burnham’s immediate predecessor, Keir Starmer, took office immediately following a general election. Burnham and four others first assume…
Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation
Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation
Debating Functional Decision Theory With Hein De Haan
A recording from Bentham's Bulldog's live video
What The Woke Get Right
And why effective altruism is the upgraded form of wokeness
Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada)
Watch now | 'Europe 2031', AI sovereignty, and the geopolitics of compute
Monday's Trailheads
America Needs the Filibuster by Ben Sasse When partisans talk about killing or “reforming” the filibuster, they’re saying they want to turn the Senate into another House of Representatives. That would be a tragic mistake. The filibuster prevents the dramatic p…
After Prophecy
Preserving Value and Order Under Divine Concealment, a Religious Phenomenology of Modern Life and Politics
On self-determination and the limits of pacifism
Why Taiwan and Ukraine are not the same as Scotland and the Basque Country
Why don't you commit suicide?
How to come alive
Candace Owens Thinks That the CIA Used Ancient Sumerian Technology to See the Future
The craziest video I've ever seen
Death by AI
We are asking the wrong questions
The Comprehensive Case For God Summarized Extremely Quickly
Plus some implications