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

"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…"

"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 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…"

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

"It is possible that efforts to contemplate some risk area—say, existential risk—will do more harm than good. One migh…"

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