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

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

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

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

"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 …"

"[If] our actions have even the slightest effect on the probability of eventual colonization, this will outweigh their…"