Substacks recommended by Philosophy bear

Recommended by Philosophy bear

Australian economist living in Sydney | Posts about economics, welfare states and inequality

Reporting and analysis on the political economy of the AI race from journalist w/ work in NYT, Nature, BBC, TIME, and more.

Garrison Lovely does rare work on AI- technically informed, highly researched and politically left-wing, with an eye to risks both catastrophic and non-catastrophic- highly recommend!

- Philosophy bear

Woke Beria

I do not actually admire Beria.

Moral Law Within

By Flo Bacus

Kantian trying to figure out how to live and also sharing my many insights.

Lance Independent

By Lance S. Bush

A blog about metaethics, metaphilosophy, and moral psychology.

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Going Awol

By Amos Wollen

"The funniest philosopher on Substack" - Henry Oliver | "Sharp and witty, with great humor always underlain by an earnest desire to figure things out." - Justin Smith-Ruiu

Plurality of Words

By Danny Wardle

Weekly musings on politics, philosophy and policy

The Boredom & the Horror & the Glory

By lucy

on reading, teaching, and writing American Literature | "to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory." - T.S. Eliot

My AI Obsession

By David Futrelle

Living with Artificial Intelligence, until it (possibly) kills us all.

John Quiggin's Blogstack

Commentary from a socialist & democratic viewpoint

Readers might enjoy this blog because it's by someone with similar values to me. However, unlike me, he is an economist. He knows how the world works whereas I, as a philosophical bear, only know how ideas work.

- Philosophy bear

United States of Exception

By Glenn

Animal welfare, effective altruism, U.S. foreign policy, intellectual history, human rights, and human wrongs.

Bentham's Newsletter

By Bentham's Bulldog

Utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!

Concrete Possible World

By metaphysiocrat

institutional design for post-capitalist civilization (plus unprincipled asides)

HOMO SUM

By Homo Sum

I am human; nothing human is alien to me.

Second Hand Economist

By Alexander de Vries

saying "on the other hand..."

Readers may enjoy the Second Hand Economist due to its incisive work on welfare economics, *if the author ever starts posting again.*

- Philosophy bear

The Dissent Channel

By Ethan

Telling you what you ought to know

The Good blog

By Nathan Barnard

Thinking about the best ways to help people

Saw he was recommending me, read his article on returns to capital and inequality, and was impressed by his proposal that the state take on the role of "vanilla" lender.

- Philosophy bear

The Idiot Report

By Ben Jenkins

Short fiction, short non-fiction - hand delivered to you, a legend.

Readers may enjoy the idiot report, because it's funny and the world's dying anyway.

- Philosophy bear