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• [marginalium] The economy of small pleasures — 8 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] The Practical Inconsequence of the Free Will Debate — 7 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] The line between sleep and wake — 6 Jul 2025
• [article] Practical Ethics — 4 Jul 2025
  To avoid rationalising poor ethical intuitions, we can use three tools to develop our ethical muscles. Sensitising ourselves to the small number of basic ethical motivations and the the mechanisms which allow us ignore them, before asking what a good person would do. It gets us most of the way there.
• [marginalium] Dunning-Kruger is about noise — 3 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Critiquing Utilitarianism — 2 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Digital Personhood — 1 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Is culture socially costly — 30 Jun 2025
• [article] Moral Blindspots — 27 Jun 2025
  Most people think better ethical decision-making is just a matter of stopping to think before acting. But many moral judgements are intuitive, and then we rationalise them to ourselves. We have to train both intuition and reasoning, not rely on one to correct the other.
• [marginalium] Are intelligentsia less happy — 26 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] God without god — 26 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones — 25 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Love is about betterment — 24 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Romantic Friendships — 24 Jun 2025
• [article] Moral Terrain — 20 Jun 2025
  You could try to make ethical decisions by reasoning through. You want to do good, so you work out what good means. Then you work out what you should do to achieve the good. Or, you could do what most people do and wing it. Just make sure you reflect on what you’re doing.