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.