All articles from Bentham's Newsletter

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 Killed Millions of Infants

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