Here, I summarize my ideological development since college.* This was for a book someone put together of biographies of libertarian figures.| Fake Noûs
I've been known to cite Marxism as an example of an irrational political belief.| fakenous.substack.com
A little while ago, I heard the story of Daryl Davis on a podcast.| fakenous.substack.com
Sometimes, we switch jobs, change partners, or move to a different city in search of something new, but once the initial excitement subsides, we realize that very little has changed on a deeper level: We are the same people.| Fake Noûs
Here, I address when private agents should try to suppress undesirable speech.*| fakenous.substack.com
We sometimes fail to appreciate the love and friendship of people who value us.| Fake Noûs
A Reply to Walter Block| fakenous.substack.com
Here, I talk about what America used to stand for, and how we are losing it.| Fake Noûs
You’re probably wondering: What kind of anarchist should I be?| fakenous.substack.com
I’ve previously written about social predators, people whose primary mode of life consists, not of creating value, but of transferring value created by other people to themselves—| Fake Noûs
Here, I discuss the evolution of my political consciousness, plus the fate of heterodox thinkers in the academy.* I wrote about this for a book of essays by “political dissidents” (basically, non-leftists) in the academic world.| fakenous.substack.com
One of the first philosophical problems I thought about in college was free will vs.| fakenous.substack.com
When I first heard the Ontological Argument, I thought it was the most obvious piece of sophistry I had ever heard.| fakenous.substack.com
Here, I talk about whether you need God to ground morality.| fakenous.substack.com
Here, I respond to Walter Block about ethical vegetarianism.* Block is a libertarian economist whom I met when I spent a year (on sabbatical) in New Orleans.| fakenous.substack.com
Albert Camus, in a short story titled “Jonas, or the Artist at Work,” describes a painter named Jonas who gradually squanders his talent:| Fake Noûs
Here, I prove the reality of reincarnation.* This is my favorite argument that I’ve ever thought of.| fakenous.substack.com
Here, I debunk the debunkers — the moral skeptics.*| fakenous.substack.com
Here, I explain why you should endorse phenomenal conservatism in epistemology.*| fakenous.substack.com
After I wrote about AI last time (https://fakenous.substack.com/p/are-we-on-the-verge-of-true-ai), some readers urged me to take more seriously AI existential risk, i.e., the threat that AI is going to kill all humans.| fakenous.substack.com
How many times have I heard people predicting an impending disaster that never materialized?| fakenous.substack.com
For the past two months, I’ve been hearing people going on about Chat GPT, the AI system that apparently does a better job at natural language communication than any other program (https://chat.openai.com).| fakenous.substack.com
