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Contra Schiller on Neoliberal Brainworms
Effective Altruism ≠ Effective Capitalism
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Gilad Seckler
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Some Analog Recommendation Algorithms
On finding your next book (show, album, etc.)
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Gilad Seckler
Three Habits of Highly Effective Altruists
An appeal to common sense
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Gilad Seckler
The "Techno-optimist/Doomer" Dichotomy Is Insufficient
On (AI) risk vs. consequences
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Gilad Seckler
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Enough with the Tin-manning
Disagreement ≠ disingenuousness
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Gilad Seckler
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing with Made-Up Graphs​​
In search of rational humanism
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Gilad Seckler
Five Takes on Israel/Palestine that I Think Are Pretty Uncontroversial
Welp, here we go...
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Gilad Seckler
I'm Sorry, but I Couldn't Care Less if the News Were Written by an AI
(Vice versa for art)
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Bring Back Frivolous Long-form Thinkpieces
Commemorating two 2010s classics
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Gilad Seckler
In Praise of Zeynep’s Law
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, don’t believe the one guy who says it’s a chicken.
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Gilad Seckler
America Needs a Sludge Czar
All hail the Complainer in Chief
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Gilad Seckler
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Guys, I Think I Might Be a Virtue Ethicist?
Amateur moral philosophy devolves into folk psychology
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Gilad Seckler
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