flight attendant: is there a doctor on board?
mom: *nudge* could've been you
a philosopher: *sigh*
flight attendant: we desperately need ethical insights during a public health crisis
mom: what
a philosopher: IT'S HAPPENING OH MY GOD IT'S REALLY HAPPENING
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My new video, ‘What is Philosophy? An Introduction,’ is live now on YouTube!
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Had a great conversation on the @BraininaVat podcast about effective altruism, covering topics ranging from the ethics of effective giving to the longterm impacts of AI. Listen on your favorite podcast app or watch on YouTube.
https://t.co/7NECg8qyeE
Can effective altruism help us tackle the world's biggest problems - from global poverty to AI?
Philosopher Jacob Bauer offers a balanced overview of this movement’s core concepts and approaches to “doing good better.”
Big news! My book, Effective Altruism: An Introduction, is now officially available in the UK!
In it, I explore the core ideas of the effective altruism movement and how we can use those ideas to tackle pressing world problems, such as global poverty, climate change, and AI.
Explore the fundamental question "Does God exist?" with this introductory primer. I break down the three main philosophical positions — Theism, Atheism, and Agnosticism — and examine the spectrum of beliefs within each stance.
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One thing that is interesting about the analytic-Continental split is that one side are serious intellectuals making actual contributions to human knowledge whereas the other are jumped up pseudo intellectual whose esoteric technical jargon masks a fundamental lack of thought.
You can leave $5,000 unattended in a room with me and every dime is gonna be there. Now if you leave a trolley, a lever and six people or something that's your fault.