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Will AI replace fashion designers, or help them?
AI models known as GANs are now being used in the fashion industry. But can they attain human levels of creativity?
Dec 17, 20235 min read
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Javier Milei's anarcho-capitalism is incoherent
Photo by Angelica Reyes on Unsplash In a surprising turn of events, Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” has been...
Dec 3, 20235 min read
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(Im)moral hazard: the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank
Is there anything morally problematic with the financial industry's risk-taking behaviour in the expectation of a bailout?
Nov 19, 20235 min read
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High Risk, Low Reward: A Challenge to the Astronomical Importance of Existential Risk Mitigation
Derek Parfit (1984) asks us to consider two scenarios. In the first, a war kills 99% of the world population. This event, Parfit urges,...
Jun 4, 20234 min read
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A Socialist Guide To Effective Altruism
Effective altruism is a movement that believes we should help others as much as possible. This may sound like a bland statement of the...
Mar 31, 202310 min read
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Responsible AI: Responsible to Whom?
How the profit motive stages a theatre of ethics washing in Artificial Intelligence There is a burgeoning wave of start-ups and tech...
Mar 24, 20236 min read
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The Magic We Owe The Future
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash 2022 has been a rollercoaster for ‘longtermism’. This is the idea that to do the most good, we need to...
Dec 8, 20226 min read
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The Banality of Good: On Why Millionaires Love Effective Altruism
Why does the moral philosophy of effective altruism attract so many millionaires, including Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel?
Nov 27, 20227 min read
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Can a machine be conscious?
Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash Blake Lemoine, a software engineer who has worked at Google for seven years, was assigned to a...
Sep 25, 20228 min read
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The Ethics of Strikes
A post on the ethics of strikes and industrial action. I argue that workers ought to have the right to strike, and ought to use it.
Jun 26, 20224 min read
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On collective injustices: Why your vegetarianism doesn't matter
If many people were to stop eating meat, then animal welfare would significantly increase. But, most won't. Should you be vegetarian?
Jun 5, 20226 min read
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Can Moral Philosophy Tell You Who Should Get the Ventilator?
Moral philosophy seeks answers to the toughest choices we face, such as tragic decisions between who lives and dies. Is this possible?
May 30, 20208 min read
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