Also, BTW I was a huge fan of your Parfit biography! It was the inspiration for this!

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I think in both of those cases I felt like what you were going for wasn't as clear as it could have been, but I could absolutely imagine a reasonable person disagreeing! Regardless, I did really enjoy the book overall and thought it was a great history of EA!

My review of Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social. I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent history of Effective Altruism within, but had mixed feelings about the philosophy-focused second half of the book!

This is from the 1973 Three Musketeers movies

Not sure I've ever seen straight-up chunks of styrofoam used as prop ice before lmao

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The first ever Parfitian mood board

Anyone have takes on Alice is Missing? We played for the first time last night and found it to be a pretty interesting/unique experience, but also found it harder than we expected to tie up the story in a coherent way

Which Nussbaum book should I get?

Banger

My review of An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice by Richard Chappell, Darius Meissner, and Will MacAskill. I thought it was fantastic!

So true

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What should I do with the ~2 dozen SWP fliers I have left over from the shrimp mall video?

100%

Dropout live tour was incredible

MrBeast does actually end the video by saying that it's wrong that private philanthropy is needed to pay for this (not to say the MrBeast's overall politics/behavior are good)

environments, or should we intervene to help animals in certain extreme cases?

How about wild animal welfare? There can be a tension between conservation and welfare in the cases of e.g. parasites that kill their hosts in extraordinarily painful ways. screwworm.org. As we get a better understanding of ecology, should our aim be solely to preserve and restore natural

Just because they’re happening to “someone else,” or even to a nonhuman animal, isn’t the comfort that it used to be

I think it’s a nice piece of writing, but I’ve always hard the opposite emotional response to accepting the Parfitian view of personal identity. Believing that there’s no deep further fact makes all the bad things in the world more salient to me

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