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Fish Feel Pain

Against The Good Guy License To Kill

The Failure of the Puddle Analogy

How Likely Is It That We'll Have Bad Values In The Far Future?

Does It Matter If HBD Is True?

Two Announcements!

Exiting The Iranian Nuclear Deal Was A Crazy Disaster

You Can't Tell How Conscious Animals Are By Looking At Them!

Do Some Good Things Even If Not All Good Things

Why I Don't Buy The Best Objection To Veganism

What Science Actually Says About Climate Change's Effects

Don't Eat Honey

On "Casual Eugenics"

It's Not Actually True That Woke People Love Imperialism

The Bible, Divine Revelation, and Dynamic System Theory

Dead Kids Matter More Than Navigating Bureaucratic Hurdles Concerning Gay Flags

What The Most Detailed Report Ever Compiled On Existential Risks From Climate Change Found

The Effective Altruism Forum Is Having A Debate About Objective Morality

Yes, You Can Argue About Definitions

The Lies of Big Bug

Justice Before The Law

"Directionally Correct" Is A Figleaf For Bullshit

Should Believers In Eternal Hell Kill Babies?

Common Arguments So Bad I Couldn't Make Them Up

Tone Policing Is Good Actually

The Fact Opinion Dichotomy Is A Giant Mess of Confusion

Your Ethics Should Follow The Weirdness of the World

If You're Going To Be An Edgy Contrarian Challenging Conventional Wisdom, You Should Know What The Hell You're Talking About

A Very Simple Case For Giving To Shrimp

A Comprehensive Takedown of Anti-Natalism

No Views Have A Monopoly On Smartness

Steelmanning Atheism

Longtermism Is Surprisingly Obvious

The Unparalleled Awesomeness of Effective Altruism Conferences

Steelmanning Geocentrism and Young Earth Creationism

Writing

You're Not As Virtuous As You Think

AI Might Kill Everyone

Atheistic Multiverses Can't Explain Fine-Tuning

The Importance of Blasting Good Ideas Into The Ether

The Horror Of Unfathomable Pain

What I Learned From Writing 2 Million Words

Take the Bentham's Bulldog Blog Reader Survey

The Memefication of Thought

Jordan Peterson Is Confused

Bestiality and Meat-Eating

Morality Isn't A Social Technology

Long-Run Human Impact On Wild Animal Suffering: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Matt Dillahunty's Bad Arguments

You Hallucinate Like AI

Oops I Messed Up The Debate Time--It's In Ten Minutes!

In Three Hours I'm Debating One Of The Most Influential Living Atheists About God's Existence. Here's My Opening Statement

Matt Walsh Hates The American Way of Life

Against The Dunkers

What My Unpublished Article Drafts Are About

Talking With Rutger Bregman About Moral Ambition, Wild Animal Suffering, and Changing the World

Braindead Cynicism Wins In The Marketplace of Ideas

Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue In The World

A Ruthless and Merciless Ranking of the Ten Best Blogs

Debating Volodzko About My Trans Article

Christians Should Be Effective Altruists

Activist Insanity Is Killing the Left

How To Read More Books

No One Denies Trans People's Right To Exist

How To Help Neglected Animals

The Eye As The Lamp of the Body

J.D. Vance Answers Questions About Philosophy

It's Hard To Figure Out Why Complicated Arguments Are Wrong

Wokeness Didn't Die, It Moved to TikTok

Obvious Things You Can't Say

Volodzko's Objections to my Trans Article Fail Completely

The Core Error Of Cancel Culture: You Can Befriend People Who Think Bad Things

The Unfuck America Tour Is Why The Left Is Fucked

How To Be Happier

The World Can't Be Weird Fallacy

Missplaced Pessimism

The Moral Knowledge Argument For God

Trump's Deportations Are A Major Assault On Free Expression

Tariffs Are Evil, Not Just Bad Economics

Why I Think Trans Women Are Women

There Should Be Less Nature

Shoeonhead Doubles Down After Lying To Millions

Responding To My Critics On Christianity

How To Get Over Breakups and Crushes

Shoeonhead's Insane Falsehoods About USAID

A Chaos President

Children Are Dying Whom You Can Save

Trump As A Woke Radical

Insects Are Not Moderately Important

Why I'm Not A Christian

Violating Court Orders Is A Threat To The Republic

Where I Agree With The World's Most Controversial Philosopher

The Postmodern Right

I Was Right About Trump

Right and Rich

20 Personal Facts

Aporia Is Wrong About Douthat

Proof Unburdened

Money Pump Arguments Destroy Non-SIA Views

An Objection To Many Worlds

Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue

Anti-Physicalist Arguments: A Tier-List

Does Reality Have A Liberal Bias?

How to Build a Substack Empire (Of Like 6,000 People)

Against Nature

The Extremely Dumb MeTooing Of Harry Sisson

Charlie Kirk's Bad Arguments

Everything's An Emergency

The Best Argument For Nihilism

The Right Demands Loyalty, The Left Demands Purity

The Virtue Ethics Case For Shrimp Welfare

The Mythicism Myth

Yglesias Derangement Syndrome

Young Earth Creationism Is Extremely False

Lyman Stone Continues Being Dumb About Shrimp

IQ and TQ

Wrongness and Dislikability are Orthogonal

Dialogues On Isaiah 53

CRISPR and Eugenics

Why Is The Right Becoming Like The Woke?

Reply To Scott Alexander Once More On Tegmark and The Multiverse

How To Help Potentially Trillions of Insects In Minutes

Why I Believe What I Do

Carrier's Extreme Blunders Continue

Contra Scott Alexander On Whether Tegmark's View Defeats Most Theistic Arguments

Richard Carrier Replies To Me On The Anthropic Argument

Ban Ventilation Shutdown!

Trump Biblical Commentary

God's Existence Is The Best Possible News

Slightly Contra Jesse Singal On Effective Altruism

100 Controversial Views

The Phrase "Moral Blackmail" Has Become A Figleaf For Psychopathy

The Case For A Significant Expansion of Foreign Aid

Follow The Converging Lines of Evidence

The Worst Thing In The World Isn't What You'd Expect

Against Addressing Root Causes

The Anti-Foreign Aid Right Is Low IQ

In Defense Of Woke Conservatism

Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid Is Still Cut Off, Leaving Babies To Die

Some People Are Just Evil And Their Whole Political Project Is Promoting Evil

New USDA Nominee Is A Psychopathic Ghoul Who Wants To Lock Pigs In Crates Where They Can't Move

The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children

The Argument From Scale Is An Own Goal

What Kinds of Sex Are Okay?

Liberals, Can We Not?

Trump's Nightmare List Of Executive Orders

What Successful Substackers Should Do

The Urge To Destroy

God May Be Maximally Simple

The Archon Abandonment Theodicy

Paid Subscription Drive

What To Do If You Love Meat But Hate Factory Farms?

Partisan Irrationality Knows No Bounds

May Max Chiswick's Memory Be A Blessing

Fine-Tuning, Made By God

We Should Expect Most Public Intellectuals To Be A Stupid Person's Smart Person

The Time A Debate Judge Docked Me Based On Utilitarianism Being All Lives Matter Logic

Against Induction From "Silly People Thought X"

What's Up With The Bible?

I'm Having A YouTube Livestream About The Anthropic Argument In About An Hour

The Ultimate Guide To The Anthropic Argument

What Can Analytic Philosophy Teach Us?

Measuring Animal Welfare With Bob Fischer