content warning: Short descriptions of non-violent sexual situations where consent is unclear. (first block quote only) (0) Leah Libresco asks: Is "Kindness-Adjacent" a Useful Category?, riffing off their previous post Avoiding Rape-Adjacent Sex. The latter (which came first): I do believe them that there's plenty of
I'm in the Harvard Political Review today, with a guest piece responding to Eric Posner's anti-effective-altruism opinion in Slate: Posner...is convinced that this tendency toward scrupulosity is enough of an issue that we should abandon the concept of effectiveness in altruism entirely. His critique, though,
Yes, the Friday linkwrap is, in fact, going out on Friday. We're living in the future! 1 The Harvard Political Review reports that a Chicago nonprofit is scraping Twitter to pass on complaints about food poisoning in restaurants to the Chicago Department of Public Health: Foodborne Chicago depends
Christmas is a time for peace; Christmas is a time for hope. Part 1 of this two-part post addressed the first, and here's the second. One of the problems with being an avowed altruist is that it's hard to talk about it with other people without
One of the problems with being an avowed altruist is that it's hard to talk about it with other people without coming across like you're trying to claim you're better than them. One of the problems with being an aspiring effective altruist is that