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A few rough, random and spicy thoughts on crime, justice and justice systems that I've been chewing over

Goodbye [A short story]

Understanding Luigi Mangione

Violence and legitimacy: The assassination of Brian Thompson

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds" - On the naturalistic possibility of soulmates

Of olfactory ethics and oaf-factory hysterics.

AI makes scientists more productive and less happy

Scott Alexander's "Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know": My Thoughts

Digital poets

I have a question for those supporting Israel's actions (Revisited)

There are questions about our feelings not even God could determine

Compassion ceilings

When Hatred and Fear Mask as Indignation

A short philosophical history

For more lifeboats: The only just academic job market is a tight academic job market

Sex, Soccer and Aella

Why the truth or falsity of moral realism is an unresolved empirical question

Lesser evilism is not endorsing genocide

The tough are those too cowardly to face tragedy

The Agenda

How would you spend your time if you could do anything you wanted for eternity? Is the existence of evil compatible with God?

If you were omniscient you would be a consequentialist

(Extremely NSFW) The movement to annul the marriage of Riley Reid

Has Bayesianism made traditional epistemology obsolete? (Revisited)

Yvne (revisited)

On the right to steal for the preservation of dignity and life (revisited)

For communism and against foreclosure on the future (revisited)

Existential tragedies, a partial list (revisited)

You will die, so you should love

What's coming from Philosophy Bear: The Philosophy Bear revisited series

Acts and omissions

An accounting of agonies

In which, against my better judgement, I hazard a concrete prediction about the near term future of AI

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: That people are fundamentally oriented to the good

Longtermism versus the poor and vulnerable? Or, how we can rise to the height of our halo.

Notes on punishment

Ask me anything about OCD specifically

Holly Lawford-Smith visits the University of Sydney: Anatomy of a controversial talk on feminism and the right

A rant on drug prices

Affirmative action must be comprehensive because otherwise it disproportionately comes at the expense of those with hidden disadvantages

The severity of OCD's effect on happiness

Raygun deserves better than this because we all deserve better than this

A note on the vote

Ask me anything

It appears Twitter (X) provides a slur pass for users with 30,000 or more followers

Parelthonology and the victory of love over history

Queen Trump

Create worlds unto others as you would have created unto you: A speculative ethics and metacosmology

The idea of a race to the singularity is well on the way to becoming part of ruling class US ideology

The dialectic of generosity and paranoia: How swing voters work and why political moderation doesn't work

Notes of many things 4

Biden must go says Bear Council

Let's delve into exploring the rich and dynamic tapestry of AI plagiarism or: You're not an AI detector

Failing Keith Starmer can't beat Corbyn's average despite record anti-Tory sentiment

To beat Trump, show his similarities to a dead end college boyfriend who thinks he's special but is just like the others

A king, two vizziers and a courtier: Abstract reflections on the debate

Paul Gomberg (UC Davis), "Anti-Racism as Communism"

Can an LLM be a philosopher? I gave one a chance.

Trying to escape death through cryonics is not a left/right thing

Reflections on discovering someone I know did something awful

What do you people want from me???!!! (But in a nice way)

Notes of Many Things 3: Bride of Notes of Many Things

From the Archives: The Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index is bad

Who, exactly, are the effective accelerationists?

Death, here is thy sting. Grave, here is thy victory.

Notes that made the cut, plus music I like

On sometimes being a grizzly bear

Regarding Sam Altman: Stop being silly. You don't know any of these people.

FYI, you can currently access the most capable, publicly available LLM for free

Notes of many things 2

Short postscript on lithium experimentation

Sketch of a design for an experimental study on the effects of Lithium in drinking water

Effective Meta-Altruism: Notes towards a new project

Advice to a frustrated leftist intellectual

Debating affirmative action in universities is pointless and just makes things worse

Has Aella confirmed a very old theory in psychology?: Introducing the high psychoticism right

You really are more likely to be killed by a random human male than a random Grizzly bear

How do political views relate to impartial generosity: A study

Laws are silent in unjust war: Student protests for Palestine and the original fantasy of liberalism

Philosophy Bear begs for a little help with a project

Charity, game theory, politics & religion: More on impartial altruism and political views

Altruistic kidney donation initiators are less than half as likely to be right-wing as controls in an online sample

Limerence and the divine

Goodbye to the future of humanity! (Institute)

Notes of many things

Have you tried talking to people about what you believe?

Just ask and I will make you any song you want through Suno

El Salvador: the costs and benefits of a crackdown

Escape from the algorithm

Laughably stupid statistical error in "The moral urgency of a good study on cold showers and depression & anxiety"

The "privacy paradox" and what privacy discourse misses plus other notes on privacy

Can AI get a publication in a prestigious philosophy journal by 2028? The philosophy journal test of AI.

We should protect privacy because it lets people get away with crime and other wrongdoings

You’re not going to stop AI by pretending to be unimpressed by it: rant

Portubots and Englifleshes: Why comparative advantage doesn't guarantee there will always be jobs for humans

The moral urgency of a good study on cold showers and depression & anxiety

Aella: In defence of a birthday girl

I have access to Claude-3 Opus, a (seemingly) considerably more advanced model than GPT-4, ask it anything

Impartial giving, a la Effective Alturism, is not a politically neutral idea (v. short)

Personal updates

A bear is confused about desire

The ethical is the political

On creativity and language models

A challenge for AI sceptics

Notes on a Jacobin article about AI killing everyone

Survey (Repost due to error)

Survey

The Food Pile Guard who could not know: a tragedy

Too technical to care

You are a blind idiot god

Most general advice is bad: A conjecture

Introducing cogiatics (short)

The internet amnesty: A proposal

Short comment on beauty and cash

Organic & compositus belief

A few points of business

If you're opposed to the war on Gaza, there is no moral basis on which to support the attack on Yemen

Moral breadth

But what makes the barnacles stick to the whale?

Stop trying to restrict the meaning of slavery