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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jun 24

The first ever Parfitian mood board

Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Apr 13

Anyone have takes on Alice is Missing? We played for the first time last night and found it to be a pretty interesting/unique experience, but also found it harder than we expected to tie up the story in a coherent way

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Mar 29

Which Nussbaum book should I get?

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Mar 29

Banger

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Mar 23

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Mar 23

My review of An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice by Richard Chappell, Darius Meissner, and Will MacAskill. I thought it was fantastic!

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Mar 16

So true

Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · Mar 16

I like effective altruism, cool idea imo

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Feb 1

lmao

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 25

What should I do with the ~2 dozen SWP fliers I have left over from the shrimp mall video?

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 25

100%

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 23

Dropout live tour was incredible

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 22

MrBeast does actually end the video by saying that it's wrong that private philanthropy is needed to pay for this (not to say the MrBeast's overall politics/behavior are good)

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 22

environments, or should we intervene to help animals in certain extreme cases?

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 22

How about wild animal welfare? There can be a tension between conservation and welfare in the cases of e.g. parasites that kill their hosts in extraordinarily painful ways. screwworm.org. As we get a better understanding of ecology, should our aim be solely to preserve and restore natural

Screwworm Free Future

screwworm.org

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 15

Just because they’re happening to “someone else,” or even to a nonhuman animal, isn’t the comfort that it used to be

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 15

I think it’s a nice piece of writing, but I’ve always hard the opposite emotional response to accepting the Parfitian view of personal identity. Believing that there’s no deep further fact makes all the bad things in the world more salient to me

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 4

Thank you so much to everyone who donated! In the end we raised $32.8k, or about 1% of AWF's total donations for 2024. Based on the historical cost-effectiveness of AWF's grants, I expect the money will greatly benefit the lives of hundreds of thousands of farmed animals!

Max Alexander @absurdlymax.bsky.social · Dec 19

It's that time of year again 🎉

Another virtual fundraiser for the EA Animal Welfare Fund! Help reduce the suffering of animals while maybe increasing ours a bit (drinking huel)

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Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · Jan 3

Today is the LAST DAY to get your donations in to the 2024 Terminally Online EA Giving Season Fundraiser! We've blown through our main goal and raised $32k, but there's one last stretch goal you could help us reach! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/...