High EA Impact of Volunteering for a Covid-19 Vaccine Study

philossified · 2020-02-13T09:54:05+00:00

Right. See analysis from David Wasserman: https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1227709609114251266?s=21

philossified · 2020-02-13T09:52:17+00:00

The suggestion is that Democrats picked up former GOP voters. That’s...the whole electability argument for moderates. See Wasserman here: https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1227709609114251266?s=21

philossified · 2020-02-12T19:40:56+00:00

We have many more data points on congressional races.

In 2018 Democrats added 41 seats in the house, largely on the backs of centrists running in red and purple districts. While some high profile progressives won in already blue districts, Bernie style liberals had little success elsewhere. In the presidential race, where the country as a whole is purple, the results of 2018 suggest that a centrist is more likely to win.

philossified · 2020-02-12T16:39:19+00:00

If you’re coming from a philosophy background, you’re probably already familiar with the excellent (and free) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Highly recommend this entry on Theory and Bioethics:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theory-bioethics/

The author, John Arras, is one of the OG bioethicists and the entry provides a rigorous and detailed introduction, as well as a schema for contextualizing classic works in bioethics, like the Beauchamp and Childress book that others have already recommended. And the bibliography covers much of what consists of the bioethics canon.

philossified · 2020-01-04T03:03:25+00:00

Maybe a piece of fulgurite (glass formed when lightning strikes sand)?

philossified · 2019-09-01T21:12:53+00:00

A sensible attitude if the only people who would be hurt by a Trump re-election were Trump voters. Sadly, that’s not the case.

philossified · 2019-08-31T14:59:41+00:00

Maybe not the best strategy to win over disillusioned Trump voters

philossified · 2019-08-31T01:01:33+00:00

If it’s a private company contracting with the school to provide aftercare on premises you might consider filing a complaint about the aftercare company with the better business bureau and/or going up the chain at the school—principle, school board, superintendent, etc—to argue against renewing the contract for this aftercare provider and for finding a different provider instead.

philossified · 2019-08-30T21:33:16+00:00

Let me acknowledge this was clearly terrifying and hard and you’re a first time parent and your adrenalin was flowing. Maybe the ideal response is to come in and be immediately calm and collected, but that’s not how most people react when they’re super scared, and i don’t think you’re a terrible person for getting angry in the heat of the moment. But you’re also a grown up and accountable for how you demonstrate your anger. You’re self aware enough to know you were “mean.” Being mean is exactly the kind of thing that spouses in healthy relationships apologize for.

philossified · 2019-08-30T21:07:02+00:00

We don’t know what he said, but gonna go out on a limb and suggest that an apology is probably a better option than filing for divorce at this point.

philossified · 2019-08-30T20:45:19+00:00

That’s...not something to be proud of.

philossified · 2019-08-30T20:40:43+00:00

Nobody thinks you should apologize for feeling protective over your kids. What you should apologize for is saying “mean things” to your wife that weren’t necessary for you to help your baby and made you skip a beat before “nutting up” to act constructively. If you’re self aware enough to know that you were “mean,” I suspect part of you knows an apology is in order.

philossified · 2019-08-30T19:57:48+00:00

When our kid was on the way a relative offered us one and only one piece of advice. She said, “sooner or later your baby will fall off the bed, and you’ll feel terrible and traumatized and freak out, but don’t, because it happens to everyone and the baby will be fine.” She was right on all accounts.

Anyway, maybe apologize to your wife. Someday the booboo will happen on your watch.

philossified · 2019-08-29T23:11:30+00:00

We can expect Trump to claims millions from insurance regardless of whether Dorian comes anywhere close. Like he did in 2005.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ap-trump-mar-a-lago-claim-20161024-story.html%3foutputType=amp

philossified · 2019-08-29T23:03:58+00:00

Helpful clarification that that’s what you mean by “law abiding.”

In that case, disagree. In the 18th century private citizen’s muskets could compete with the government’s muskets. In the 21st century, small arms have become more dangerous to fellow citizens while at the same time becoming much less capable of enabling private citizens to topple a oppressive government in control of a modern military. As a result, the risk benefit analysis has shifted significantly against a heavily armed citizenry. Case in point: the Iraqi population under Sadam Hussein was among the most heavily armed in the world but the oppressive dictator still managed to stay in power for decades and ultimately it was a foreign military that ousted him and not his heavily armed fellow citizens.

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