"Unrestricted altruism is not so common that we can afford to fritter it away on a plethora of feel-good projects of s…"

"Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder."

"The universe is cold. Fun is the fire that melts the blocks of hardship and creates a bubbling celebration of life. I…"

"Searching for a cure for aging is not just a nice thing that we should perhaps one day get around to. It is an urgent…"

"By anybody’s standards, there is a huge amount of unnecessary and undeserved suffering that is just bad and that we s…"

"The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal …"

"The singleton hypothesis is that Earth-originating intelligent life will (eventually) form a singleton. It is an open…"

"What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? M…"

"Aggregative consequentialist theories are threatened by infinitarian paralysis: they seem to imply that if the world …"

"Many humans look at nature from an aesthetic perspective and think in terms of biodiversity and the health of ecosyst…"