A diligent approach to charity and ethical goals Typical interests: • Global poverty • Animal suffering • Existential risks • Earning to give Characteristics: • Focuses on consequences - Attentive to opportunity costs • Often measures benefits: - Maximises the good done per unit of time/money • Impartial to location and future generations …

A survey of issues: TLDR: Unfortunately, there are conflicts of interest, especially between cis-women/female’s contemporary rights and trans-first inclusivity, in language, space /segregation, profiling, competitive justice, minors, and tolerating unconventionality. There are multiple debates here and some bad reasoning heard from extremes. • What determines basic rights? • What is the place of profiling for risk in modern society? …

A survey of issues: Aspects: Economic +GDP boost from ‘Place premium’ +The ‘Lump of labour’ fallacy -Welfare -Wage depression -Inequality -Brain drain creating ghost and zombie towns Social -Cultural preservation (indigenous erasure/cultural genocide) -Assimilation (inc. language) -Social cohesion and trust erosion Political / Legal -Security: crime and national defence -Institutional quality/corruption, laws/democracy

In 7 Themes… In the ideal, explicitly ask the following to the interlocutor/yourself- Initial Checks: Non-Taste “Is this just a matter of taste?” Open-mindedness “Are you willing to change your mind?” //Gauge the degree of identity protection/tribalism Utility “What are each of our purposes for this discussion — persuading who? self-assurance?” “Is this worth…

Purposes: • Acknowledging a harm or break of conventional etiquette • Declare future non-repetition (remorse) • Sympathy Are shame/guilt/humiliation required? Does the speech act cause it? In what sense must apologies be delivered personally? What of delivery or receipt on behalf of?

Trigger warning: Everything, especially antinatalism and anti-romance It’s OK to laugh Noteworthy texts: -Murphy’s Law -Ferengi Rules of Acquisition -The Devil’s Dictionary -Citations pending- Section 1

BACKGROUND Philosophy in the nineteenth century was dominated by German Idealism and Romanticism concerning things like “the absolute”, “becoming” and “the will”. Logical Positivism originated in the 1920s in the Vienna and Berlin Circles, criticising metaphysics and any theories or theoretical terms not related to experience as meaningless nonsense e.g. …

Lists, aphorisms and musings from a reformed thought reformer I like lists and concisely presenting the different sides of an issue. This also serves as a mobile memory aid. “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” I’m influenced by ‘For and Against’ study aids in Oxford union debating. Everyone needs expression, but blogging is indulgent. And often verbose. Id advocate Web 3.0: Digital Noise Reduction:

About Learning about deductive fallacies, Bayes’ theorem, confirmation bias and the Wason selection test is just the tip of the iceberg. Critical thinking requires an attitude, manifesting in habits of thought and communication, complementing other techniques. Intellectual virtues include curiosity, reflectiveness, dispassion/anti-tribalism, diligence, collaboration, and adversarialism/irreverence. Perhaps they can be usefully…