HeyJaredFirst Principles
First principles thinking applied to the chaos of modern life.
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Please Chill Out About Hell (opens the original)
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Preference Utilitarians Should Be Substance Dualists (opens the original)
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The Limited God Problem for Threshold Deontology (opens the original)
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Morality Is Dead — And Walter Veit Has Killed It (opens the original)
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (opens the original)
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This is a recording of me singing to my daughter. If you listen closely, you can sometimes hear her in the background. I’m not a professional singer so you will notice flaws in my performance. Luckily, my audience doesn’t seem to mind.Lara just turned six-months-old; so she still cries a lot. Sometimes, the crying makes sense: she’s tired, she’s hungry, she just saw me laugh too loudly at something Diane said—all good reasons. But sometimes the crying strikes like a tariff from from the Trump ad
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