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an uplifting short story about the heat death of the universe from the point of view of the universe
User write an uplifting short story about the heat death of the universe from the point of view of the universe ChatGPT For billions of years, I have…
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Henry Cooksley

June 2023

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December 2021

On "Effective altruism, risk, and human extinction" by Richard Pettigrew
Richard Pettigrew has written a new paper on existential risk: semanticscholar.org | philarchive.org The paper briefly examines the disturbing argument…
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Henry Cooksley
the thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night
each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death…
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Henry Cooksley

September 2021

“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our universe”: Henry's review of Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jay Armas
This review also appears on Goodreads. It is by now a well-worn slogan that there is something called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in…
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Henry Cooksley
A linkpost for Peter Woit's critique of Conversations on Quantum Gravity
Quantum gravity is perhaps the best known ‘unsolved problem’ in physics: the final puzzle piece that serious people believe could give us a physical…
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Henry Cooksley

May 2021

August 2020

Longtermism and politics: towards a longtermist utopia?
Tyler John and William MacAskill have written a book chapter on how political institutions might reform themselves to care more about the long-term…
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Sadness in small moments: Henry's review of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Before I started Pachinko I was hoping to rediscover a love of the novel that I definitely had growing up, but have steadily lost over time. I think…
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Henry Cooksley
Public Health England now publishes weekly excess mortality in England broken down by age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation, underlying cause of…
This post originally appeared in a shorter form on Facebook. It has been updated with the latest data at the time of writing. Public Health England now…
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Anti-racism, algorithmic bias, and policing: a brief introduction
This post originally appeared on Medium. Recently I’ve been interested in various questions relating to anti-racism, algorithmic bias, and policing…
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