All articles from Bentham's Newsletter

Humane Pesticides Are Massively Morally Urgent

If we're going to poison quadrillions of beings to death each year, we should at least try not to make it excruciatingly painful

None of It Is Pretend

Not the future, not the animals, and not the dying children

Are The Fatima Children Unprecedented?

Analyzing in detail some underdiscussed Fatima arguments

Before Making Sweeping Claims About Epistemology, You Should Think About Whether They Imply Something Obviously Absurd

And whether, for example, they'd vaporize all scientific knowledge

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read Recently

On funerals keeping Africa poor, miracles, effective altruism, cancer, AI preparedness, telescopic altruism, data centers, Sam Bankman Fried, Dominion, fallacies, and love, plus a personal update

A Lot Of Arguments Against Immigration Are Arguments For Anti-Natalism

"The children are taking our jobs"

What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain

How we know continental philosophy is largely nonsense

Leading Insect Farm Took Millions In Subsidies, Then Collapsed Into A Waking Nightmare

The dark underbelly of insect farming

What To Do In Iran?

Why I don't think the policy of threatening to destroy a civilization, and then chickening out, is optimal.

Burn The Stars

But if we shouldn't, God exists

Political Slop

The ubiquity of nonsense

Some Political Errors

Dozens of errors in no particular order

Humans Killed the Megafauna

A bunch of big animals went extinct around when humans arrived. Scholars disagree about why.