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59 from 1 Dec 2019 to 29 Jun 2026
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now and then (4 in the last year)
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personal blog

2026 2

  1. Media highlights 2026 (Jan to June)
  2. Book reviews (ongoing)

2025 4

  1. Media highlights 2025 (Jul to Dec)
  2. No ghost in the machine
  3. Media highlights 2025 (Jan to June)
  4. Moral mountaineering

2024 10

  1. Media highlights 2024 (July to Dec)
  2. The Dangers of Mirrored Life
  3. Notes from Order Without Design
  4. A few reasons for x-risk scepticism
  5. Media highlights 2024 (Jan to June)
  6. Beware point estimates of tractability
  7. Anthropic reasons for digital mind scepticism?
  8. Goodbye to FHI
  9. Bullet points on Japan
  10. A path from Seattle

2023 12

  1. Media highlights 2023 (July to December)
  2. Speaking with Richard Bruns about indoor air quality
  3. Where do people come from?
  4. Chuck Feeney (1931–2023)
  5. Speaking with Guive Assadi about 'evolutionary futures'
  6. Media highlights 2023 (January to June)
  7. First clean water, now clean air
  8. You don't need to read the news
  9. Speaking with Rory Stewart about GiveDirectly
  10. More projects I’d like to see
  11. Summary of What We Owe The Future
  12. Toward a Declaration on Future Generations

2022 6

  1. Media Highlights 2022 (July to December)
  2. Advice for Starting a Podcast
  3. Carl Sagan Quotations
  4. Media Highlights 2022 (January to June)
  5. Convex Altruism
  6. EA Projects I'd Like to See

2021 8

  1. Media Highlights 2021
  2. Research I'd Like to See
  3. Risks from Asteroids
  4. Summary of 'Our Common Agenda' UN Report
  5. Institutions for the Long Run
  6. Discovering Existential Risk
  7. Intro to Longtermism
  8. The Case for Protein Alternatives

2020 15

  1. Speciesism, Lockdown Ethics, and Controversial Ideas
  2. Intro to the Philosophy of Well-Being
  3. Intro to Scale-Norming
  4. Review and Summary of Moral Uncertainty
  5. Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk
  6. Saving the Web With Very Small Amounts of Money
  7. Causal Closeness
  8. Causation, Forecasting, and Quantum Computing
  9. 10 Bits of Philosophy
  10. Review of Effective Altruism – Philosophical Issues
  11. Unsung Heroism
  12. MWA and Student Charity
  13. Worrying facts from 'The Precipice'
  14. Signalling and Self-Deception
  15. Effective Altruism Blogs to Follow

2019 2

  1. Stories for Good
  2. Intro to the Repugnant Conclusion