A Meaningful Life, A Better World

Since the below is a rehashing of a point I've made many, many times, here is a link to an incredibly beautiful song .   From Our World...

Reference ; the "twice-as-good" is definitely debatable, IMO. Comic version :

Graphic above: You can throw the trolly switch and save everyone, but first you have to admit to you made a mistake. Losing is a book-lengt...

Historically, humans have been monstrously bad at “ethical” thinking.  Nearly every smart person rationalized the obvious-in-retrospect mor...

I asked Q to create a graphic based on the excerpts below. That's a lot of text, Q!   Here is some comic relief to the below serious to...

When this comic came out, I had literally just been thinking: I can't imagine any explanation of consciousness would be actually satisfy...

Contrary to myself on thought experiments :  Someone who has read this blog since the beginning in 2014 (!) turned me on to the book Death ...

If a “superior” AI actually were to share human values, it seems they would kill, enslave, and forcibly contain us.  Recently, I vented to...

From Adam Mastroianni  emphasis added; two charts below:  In 1995, half of high school students drank, 35% smoked, and 40% had at least trie...

Hi? There’s a happiness gap between wanting the best and accepting good enough :  some science-backed ways to close that gap. Along the same...

This video compilation of monsoon storms around Tucson is excellent, if you have access to a big screen. Particularly, watch until the Mara...

32 years on: You can't raise a child vegan

“It looks like the number of children who die every year is going to go up for the first time in 85 years, and that was caused by the Americ...

“I don’t eat much red meat.” We (Anne and I) have heard that too many times to count. When vegetarianism or veganism is mentioned, most peop...

From here , curing cancer would increase life expectancy by 2.3 years. (Everyone dies of something.) But as seen above, in the past 50 years...