Émile P. Torres
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The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real
Critics call the clock a scare-mongering device — but the problem is, we have good reasons to fear extinction → Read More
Climate reparations: It's the right thing to do — and will create a better world for everyone
Real climate justice is bad news for ExxonMobil, says philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — but good news for the rest of us → Read More
What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about "longtermism"
I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse → Read More
Soup on the van Gogh: The painting's fine, and the kids are all right
Was the London soup-throwing incident an absurd plea for attention? Absolutely — it was also totally justified → Read More
"White Psychodrama" and the culture wars: A self-reinforcing cycle, going nowhere
Philosopher Liam Kofi Bright's startling new take on the culture wars: A pointless struggle between white people → Read More
Selling "longtermism": How PR and marketing drive a controversial new movement
For star author William MacAskill and the "longtermist" movement, marketing, PR and brand management are crucial → Read More
Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
Whatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism → Read More
Would "artificial superintelligence" lead to the end of life on Earth? It's not a stupid question
A supercharged AI will be so much smarter than us that there's no way to calculate the risk. Let's call time out → Read More
How Elon Musk sees the future: His bizarre sci-fi vision should concern us all
Musk is sweet on "longtermism," a vision of deep-future human happiness that's even crazier than you think → Read More
Elon Musk, Twitter and the future: His long-term vision is even weirder than you think
Musk wants to save humanity — for a future where we "live" by the trillions inside Matrix-style cosmic simulations → Read More
Can we clean up the mess we've created? We have to do it now, or face extinction
Climate change and the crisis of democracy are only the tip of the iceberg — the threat to civilization is here → Read More
Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right
What once seemed like a bracing intellectual movement has degenerated into a pack of abusive, small-minded bigots → Read More
Sam Harris and Donald Trump: They're completely different ... yet very much alike
Harris claims to be a defender of intellectual freedom — but has become a super-spreader of racist disinformation → Read More
Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly… → Read More
Steven Pinker, Sam Harris and the epidemic of annoying white male intellectuals
The problem with Pinker, and the whole Intellectual Dark Web, is that their claim to represent reason is total crap → Read More
Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
There are lots of reasons why colonizing space seems compelling. The popular astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that it would stimulate… → Read More
Steven Pinker's fake enlightenment: His book is full of misleading claims and false assertions
Harvard psychologist Pinker's bestseller "Enlightenment Now" is more than overly optimistic: It's deeply flawed → Read More
If 2016 was the most important election in history, this is our chance to begin undoing it
While the catastrophic effects of the 2016 election will last for years, we have a chance to start fighting back → Read More
Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than… → Read More
Former Islamist radical Maajid Nawaz on “regressive leftism” — and why the SPLC has labeled him an “anti-Muslim extremist”
British writer Maajid Nawaz on jihad and the alt-right — and whether going to a strip club got him blacklisted VIDEO → Read More