Alex Madva
@madva.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy @ Cal Poly Pomona | Director of CA Center for Ethics & Policy | Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium | Co-Author of Somebody Should Do Something
Just watched this for the first time a month or two ago and it killed me. Even after watching the opening scene, I wasn't ready for the ending. And kept waiting for, like, a Catbus or something to show up and save them
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Just watched this for the first time a month or two ago and it killed me. Even after watching the opening scene, I wasn't ready for the ending. And kept waiting for, like, a Catbus or something to show up and save them
A similar idea was expressed by @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social, eg here: aeon.co/essays/why-d... with reply from eg @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social here: smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/why-is-mor...
Why does moral progress feel preachy and annoying? | Aeon Essays
You might feel you can trust your gut to tell right from wrong, but the friction of social change shows that you can’t
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November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A similar idea was expressed by @dryan149.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social, eg here: aeon.co/essays/why-d... with reply from eg @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social here: smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/why-is-mor...
Way to leave us in suspense about the explanation and force me to get all the way to the bottom of the article to find it! Minor league pitchers are worse, so their umps see lots more easy calls, which brings up the overall accuracy rate. (Obvious in hindsight of course)
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Way to leave us in suspense about the explanation and force me to get all the way to the bottom of the article to find it! Minor league pitchers are worse, so their umps see lots more easy calls, which brings up the overall accuracy rate. (Obvious in hindsight of course)
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Social Change, like AI Resistance, is a Team Sport!
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November 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Social Change, like AI Resistance, is a Team Sport!
🙏🏼
@sigalsamuel.bsky.social
@vox.com
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
🙏🏼
@sigalsamuel.bsky.social
@vox.com
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Actions can set off cascades that lead to major structural outcomes. Causal effects in such systems don’t always build on each other in a smooth or continuous way. Sometimes they build nonlinearly, allowing seemingly small events to produce disproportionately large changes.
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Actions can set off cascades that lead to major structural outcomes. Causal effects in such systems don’t always build on each other in a smooth or continuous way. Sometimes they build nonlinearly, allowing seemingly small events to produce disproportionately large changes.
Sorry to belabor the point but the OP said "do x *not* y" (original emphasis), and the response here is "you need to do y in order to do x". Intervening on epistemic virtue and critical thinking is hard but so is everything else, and every other plausible intervention requires headway on them too
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Sorry to belabor the point but the OP said "do x *not* y" (original emphasis), and the response here is "you need to do y in order to do x". Intervening on epistemic virtue and critical thinking is hard but so is everything else, and every other plausible intervention requires headway on them too
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Reposted by Alex Madva