Feeling depressed and anxious about the state of the world? Try working on a 375 year-old math problem from the Platonic realm, which should be completely psychologically safe . . . youtu.be/QH4MviUE0_s

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

"Veil of Ignorance"

Paper here: www.forethought.org/research/pe...

Video podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF...

Essay here: www.forethought.org/research/ho...

10,000 people across the globe have now taken the 🔸10% Pledge 🚀 > $300M already donated > $1B lifetime committed 10,000 people from 116 countries 🌐 This is a movement of action and optimism, funding work to solve the world’s most pressing problems 🔥 givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

He won't release the list because he's on the list.

AI is wild these days 🤯

Worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbI...

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'The Moral Circle': A Riveting Expansion of Ethical Concerns | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

Most of the short videos on my YouTube channel come from my podcast, “Lives Well Lived”, where Kasia de Lazari-Radek and I speak with people who are using their lives to make a meaningful impact, through reason, compassion, and action.

www.sfchronicle.com/food/article... 🥳

Great news for a struggling industry: FDA approves Mission Barns to sell cultivated pork fat. Real animal meat without killing animals or inducing insane amounts of deforestation. agfundernews.com/breaking-mis...

Ripping healthcare away from 83 million people to fund tax cuts for the richest people in the world goes beyond 'greed' and into sociopathic cruelty. Make no mistake - this is administrative murder. Scores of Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, will die as a direct result of this.

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

They're lying to you about their budget plans because they know nobody wants to slash funding for Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. 🔥📞🔥 NEW CALL SCRIPT directed to both House & Senate w/ additional responses in case you face gaslighting push back from staffers 👉 5calls.org/issue/house-...

What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.

Exactly this.

The blood that Elon Musk and his DOGE-cronies have on their hands because of the PEPFAR Funding Suspension. 200.000+ people not getting their daily HIV medication. 15.000+ deaths and counting.

My GPU has 45 billion transistors in it. Like, we have this magic rock that we carved 45,000,000,000 miniature switches on it to create images of worlds that do not exist on a screen. We really, really not appreciate enough how insanely magical technology is.

Our next newsletter is in your inbox now! Find out how your Giving Season donations can be exceptionally impactful if you donate to the most effective climate charities. We also cover research on effective biodiversity conservation. 📥 effectiveenvironmentalism.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

Happy Birthday to Giving What We Can, which turns 15 today! 🥳 When Toby and I started GWWC 15 years ago, we had just 23 members, each of us pledging at least 10% of our income to effective charities until we retire. Now, over 9,000 people have taken this pledge. www.givingwhatwecan.org

I’ve just donated to @OurWorldInData They’re like the Office of National Statistics but for the whole world. By providing exceptionally clear information about the most important issues, they help decision-makers across the world make better-informed choices. ourworldindata.org/donate

I have a new book out! "An Introduction to Utilitarianism", co-authored with Richard Chappell and Darius Meissner. It all started in 2016: I was giving the introduction to ethics lectures at Oxford and I was frustrated by how utilitarianism was presented to students in introductory materials...

With this in mind, Darius Meissner (then a student in my classes) and I set up utilitarianism.net, to provide an open-access introduction to utilitarianism, presenting some of its variants and giving the case for and against.

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The October issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas is out. Coedited with Francesca Minerva and Jeff McMahan, it features papers too controversial for other journals. We rely on peer reviews and don’t reject based on politics. Read it here: journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issu...