"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."

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

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

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

"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…"

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