At some point in Run 3, you stop feeling like a player and start feeling like part of the void itself. The darkness around you isn’t frightening anymore—it’s familiar. You know how...
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Columnist @Quillette covering Energy. Prev: @envprogress. Taking a break from Twitter for Lent. Will occaisonally check DMs.
Scottish philosopher and author. One of the originators of the effective altruism movement. Associate professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. Director of the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Co-founder of Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and 80,000 Hours. Author of "Doing Good Better" (2015), "What We Owe the Future" (2022), and co-author of "Moral Uncertainty" (2020).
Cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. Advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
I am a neurogeneticist interested in the genetics of brain wiring and its contribution to variation in human faculties. Author of INNATE (2018). http://kjmitchell.com