Suppose God told you that you would go to hell if the median human faith of humanity is insufficient when you die. If the median faith of humanity is good enough, then everyone goes to heaven, but if not, than…
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We need a better concept of collective morality to be able to deal with climate change
Posted in Environment, Philosophy and ethics
Part of the campaign to change how people use pronouns is caused by Sapir-Whorf
If people used the pronoun ‘ki’ when referring to the earth, would that make people treat the earth more environmentally? That is the hypothesis of Robin Wall Kimmerer the author of Braiding Sweetgrass. She doesn’t like calling the earth an…
Posted in Philosophy and ethics
Blockchain NFTs have nothing to do with ownership rights. They are merely collectables and receipts for donations.
NFTs are not property rights just like Bitcoin is not money. Property rights are usually described as a bundle of rights, but every concept can be described as having a bundle of qualities, so what matters is determining what qualities…
Do we have a responsibility to develop more millionaire superheroes?
Peter Singer’s book called The Life You Can Save is about one of his most famous thought experiments: Suppose on a walk you notice a young girl drowning in a lake. If you can swim, and you can save her…
Posted in Millionaire Superheroes, Philosophy and ethics
Argument from authority is necessary for scientific progress.
Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Every scientific advance is based on the work of others and so we need to know what scientific work is accurate so…
Posted in Culture, Philosophy and ethics
Abolish Daylight Wasting Time
Updated 3.22.2022 This Sunday begins the season of Daylight Wasting Time which wastes daylight for most Americans. The median American gets out of bed a little after 6:30AM and goes to bed around 11PM according to Jawbone’s sleep sensors and…
Posted in Culture
Stuart Russell says to give up on deontologies
Stuart Russell wrote a new book about managing the coming artificial intelligence revolution called Human Compatible. He believes that the main danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and decide to maximize its own well-being at the…
Posted in Philosophy and ethics
Medianism 