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Want More Suffering? Be an EA. (opens the original)
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If you don’t know who I am, my Wikipedia page is not horrible. I care about the below because serious suffering sucks. This isn’t hypothetical to me. I’ve wanted to kill myself, and I am always in pain.I first stopped eating animals in 1986. For most of my adult life, I bought into the delusions below. I have sympathy for believers.1: Suffering Doesn’t Sum<a href="ht
If We Want to Win, We Have to Stop Deluding Ourselves (opens the original)
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tl;dr - if we want to make things actually better, we need to be honest with ourselves and others.“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”-Richard Feynman<source
Everyone has a religion (opens the original)
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From 2023, expanding on 2018’s “We All Have Our Blindspots.” See also “This is neither rational nor objective.” I assume you don’t think different humans have different values based on their skin tone. Many of not most of my readers probably also agree the sequence of ACTG nucleotides doesn’t determine whether a lifeform deserves moral consideration. (As far as I know, no one has ye
Stop Doomshitting (opens the original)
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So what are you going to do about it? That’s what I’d like to know.-Paul SimonThe generic liberal feed:Carbon!So what?(And a new So what?)Society will collapse!So what?The
You Don’t Have Free Will. This Is Good News. (opens the original)
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