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Hume’s pluralist, sentimentalist, and naturalist approach to ethics is more promising than utilitarianism or deontology for modern moral psychology. As a first step in resuming Hume’s project, we should try to identify the taste receptors of the righteous mind.

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

"The movement, known as E.A. to its practitioners, who themselves are known as E.A.s, takes as its premise that people ought to do good in the most clear-sighted, ambitious, and unsentimental way possible. Among other back-of-the-envelope estimates, E.A.s believe that a life in the developing world can be saved for about four thousand dollars. Effe... See more

Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards

Byrne Hobart byrnehobart.medium.com

While a tad oversimplified, Charlie Munger’s famous one-liner is sort of like the Occam’s Razor of human behavior – especially at scale. People are generally far more driven by self-interest than by any other factor.

Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog

Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.

Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

housands of economists and policy experts in the US currently debate how to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent, and more broadly how to keep down the cost of healthcare (which is mostly consumed by those over 70 and especially those with terminal illnesses such as cancer). The situation for these programs is likely to be radically improved i... See more

Dario Amodei • Machines of Loving Grace

Even accounting for California’s much larger population, its death rate was three times as high as Iowa’s by February. Yet Iowa supposedly had done everything wrong through the winter, California everything right. (In a follow-up article in February 2021, The Atlantic would claim, laughably, that “one key reason” its promised apocalypse in Iowa had

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Many of the best quality-of-life improvements seem to have known costs but unknowable benefits.

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Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards

Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog

Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Dario Amodei • Machines of Loving Grace

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Infinite Play • Known Costs, Unknowable Benefits