Motivated reasoning alone isn't a great explanation for universal moral judgements, but motivated reasoning + empathy (or "self-other overlap") may be a good one. clarifyingconsequences.substack.com/p/motivated-...

COVID probably came from animals at a market, but nearly all of the published arguments for zoonosis are kind of bad and it’s disturbing that the origin of such a devastating illness has been investigated so poorly.

Geoengineering looks like a pretty good solution to climate change.

I love AI image generators, ChatGPT is my favourite. Just incredible what you can do with them.

I wonder if free market/abundance liberals overrate procedures (like democracy) vs ruthlessly seizing power and doing good stuff. A pity if they do because they have lots of good ideas about stuff to do.

I’m agnostic about whether cross-racial achievement gaps have a significant genetic basis, but I’m confident they’re beyond realistic educational interventions

My favourite thing about Donald Trump is he sometimes makes me laugh

Used to be that if you wanted to be a successful actor you had to be really hot, but with AI video getting good it might be more of an advantage to be imaginative.

I’ve written an AI argument judge (squabblesort-a13dccd5cc3e.herokuapp.com). I wanted to integrate it to Twitter but their API is expensive for experimentation. Do people have arguments here on blue sky?