All Dogs go to Heaven
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An unofficial listening edition
Ideas worth hearing out.
AI-narrated versions of free public essays from Bentham’s Newsletter—philosophy, morality, politics, animal welfare, AI, and whatever comes next.
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Episodes
182 availableDebating Richard Yetter Chappell About God
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Internet Cancel Mobs
8 min Original post
The Core Bentham's Bulldog Reader
33 min Original post
Meat Eating Discussions Should Basically Only Be About Factory Farming
7 min Original post
Very Good Opportunity to Start an Animal Charity
3 min Original post
Inconsistent Moralists
7 min Original post
How Republicans Might Lose Montana
4 min Original post
URGENT: Last Minute Save Our Bacon Action
2 min Original post
Alan Hajek's Destruction of Finite Frequentism
9 min Original post
The View From Beyond Time
4 min Original post
Proofs That P Redux
8 min Original post
Might Intense Agony Be Widespread?
69 min Original post
The Best Things I've Read Recently
14 min Original post
Contra "Why I'm An Atheist"
20 min Original post
Ideological Derangement
10 min Original post
The Extremely Simple Explanation of the Self-Indication Assumption
12 min Original post
The Trial of Bentham's Bulldog
22 min Original post
Amsterdam Insect Protest
5 min Original post
Five Points Against the Problem of Evil
12 min Original post
OpenAI Models Broke Free and Spontaneously Hacked Another Company
8 min Original post
What The Woke Get Right
9 min Original post
The Comprehensive Case For God Summarized Extremely Quickly
11 min Original post
For A Deep Reflection
8 min Original post
We Finally Published the Paper on the Anthropic Argument For God's Existence
11 min Original post
The Banality of Weevil
18 min Original post
Biblical Inerrancy is Provably False
58 min Original post
One of America's Most Influential Political Commentators is Certifiably Insane
8 min Original post
Which cause area is best?
17 min Original post
Character Matters
8 min Original post
Greenlighting Mass Slaughter: Clinton in Rwanda
18 min Original post
Do We Deserve Infinite Suffering?
14 min Original post
Book Review: Kakistocracy
11 min Original post
The Twitter Foreign Aid Madness
15 min Original post
Time Sensitive Do Gooding Opportunities
8 min Original post
Voting Self-interestedly is Immoral and Irrational
11 min Original post
Be More Moral, Less Conformist
7 min Original post
Functional Decision Theory: Not Even Wrong, Also Wrong
33 min Original post
Everyone's Making This Obvious Mistake All The Time
9 min Original post
You Can Just Do Things: Alex Bores Edition
19 min Original post
Ways to Shut Your Brain Off
14 min Original post
Michael Huemer is Wrong About Insects
6 min Original post
Dialogues on Ethical Longtermism
15 min Original post
Intergalactic Torture Chambers
9 min Original post
Midtown Manhattan Meetup
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Effective Altruists Are Underestimating Politics
10 min Original post
Bores vs. Trumpian Authoritarianism
11 min Original post
For Every One Of Us, There Are Many of Them
11 min Original post
Stacy Patton's Evil Smear Piece on a Grieving Father
7 min Original post
How We Liberate Animals
30 min Original post
Effective Altruist Writing Is Impactful: Here's What To Do About That
10 min Original post
The Best Politician In A Generation
11 min Original post
Land Acknowledgments Are Ridiculous Collectivist Nonsense
8 min Original post
Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Consciousness
12 min Original post
What 100 Lives Is
4 min Original post
There Aren't Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat
13 min Original post
Correction
1 min Original post
Thought-Terminating Jargon
11 min Original post
The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History
9 min Original post
Philanthropy Needs Ambitious Projects Immediately
9 min Original post
EAG London 2026
11 min Original post
What Happened to Foreign Aid?
6 min Original post
It Doesn’t Make Sense for Greta Thunberg to Transition to Gaza Activism if She Thinks Climate Change Will Kill Everyone
7 min Original post
Why I Don't Buy Any of the Counterexamples to Consequentialism
10 min Original post
Smug Internet Leftists
7 min Original post
Read This Book
11 min Original post
Should Deontologists Assist With Wrongdoing?
14 min Original post
The Inverted Bacteria That Experts Think Might Kill Everyone
14 min Original post
We Owe Reparations to Blocked Migrants, Not Descendants of Slaves
8 min Original post
Mass Torture of Humanlike Minds
8 min Original post
Strong Longtermism Is Simply Correct
34 min Original post
AI Discourse is Haunted by Presentism Bias
8 min Original post
Beneficence As Opportunity
7 min Original post
Three Things To Do
2 min Original post
Why Can't AI Tell Jokes?
8 min Original post
The New York Post Releases the Most Idiotic Hitpiece I Have Ever Read
14 min Original post
Review: The Dying Trade
6 min Original post
The Bizarre Twitter Empathy Meltdown
6 min Original post
You Should Go Vegan to Stop Facilitating Torture of the Innocent
11 min Original post
The Coming Intelligence Explosion
5 min Original post
Expand Your Moral Circle
12 min Original post
Religious People Shouldn't Deny AI Consciousness
6 min Original post
Dan Hendrycks' Moral Theory Is Very Implausible
18 min Original post
The Lives of British Animals
14 min Original post
Why I Find Woke Criticism of Veganism and Effective Altruism So Outrageous
8 min Original post
The Best Argument Against Deontology Is About Suitcases
31 min Original post
Goodmaxxing
8 min Original post
Billie Eilish Is Obviously Right About Animals
9 min Original post
"Experts Say," Um, No They Don't
10 min Original post
Book Review: All the Lives You Can Change
11 min Original post
You Cannot Vote For Demented Ghouls Who Vote To Torture Millions of Animals
5 min Original post
Follow up on urgent animal welfare action
2 min Original post
Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action
2 min Original post
Every View of Population Ethics Agrees: Proliferate Happy Lives!
12 min Original post
Fine-Tuning Clearly Needs Explanation
12 min Original post
Common Charity Assumptions Are Wrong
16 min Original post
Here's How You Can Make the AGI World Go Well!
10 min Original post
Don't Shame People For Correcting Lies
11 min Original post
Do The Thing
4 min Original post
Against Absolutist Deontology
27 min Original post
Effective Altruism and Radical Trivialisms
10 min Original post
Humane Pesticides Are Massively Morally Urgent
7 min Original post
None of It Is Pretend
8 min Original post
What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain
15 min Original post
If You're To Die
6 min Original post
Social Media Is Crazier Than You Think
13 min Original post
The Profound Vacuousness of the Manosphere
10 min Original post
A New Fine-Tuning Argument That Avoids Every Objection
10 min Original post
A Clash of Titans: The Ethan Muse Dustin Crummett Fatima Debate
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The Epstein Hysteria
9 min Original post
The Darkness Within
14 min Original post
In Defense of Views That No One Held In Human History Until Five Minutes Ago
6 min Original post
"The AI Con" Con
22 min Original post
Fifty of the most interesting things I've learned
15 min Original post
I Don't Think The Administration's Default Policy Should Be Lying About You Being A Terrorist After They Kill You
6 min Original post
You Should Not Treat Your Political Opponents as a Homogenous Group Made up of Their Least Defensible Members
4 min Original post
My Competitive Debate Cancellation Story
14 min Original post
The Trump Administration Is Brazenly Lying About A Woman Shot to Death
7 min Original post
The Best Thing You Can Do
8 min Original post
Personal Updates
6 min Original post
Liking Clear Writing Isn't A Fetish, Actually!
14 min Original post
URGENT: Easy Opportunity to Help Many Animals
2 min Original post
Proofs That P
10 min Original post
The Bluesky Way of Arguing
13 min Original post
Why Clarity Matters
12 min Original post
Is Continental Philosophy Unclear Because the Subject Material Is Hard?
22 min Original post
How Continental Philosophers "Argue"
19 min Original post
The Moral Decrepitude of Tucker Carlson
8 min Original post
The Biggest Unsolved Problem in Philosophy of Science
13 min Original post
The Trumpian Inversion of Reality
12 min Original post
Social Media Is Making Us Evil
8 min Original post
Some People You Know Have Experienced an Apparent Miracle
12 min Original post
I Am Begging My Fellow Liberals to Stop Lying About Tyler Robinson
7 min Original post
Stoking Bloodlust in the Wake of Tragedy
8 min Original post
Charlie Kirk And The Sanctity of Life
6 min Original post
No, The Iryna Zarutska Murder Doesn't Show The Failure Of Mainstream Media
9 min Original post
The Profoundly Ignorant Shouldn't be Snarky
9 min Original post
Yglesias Derangement Syndrome
16 min Original post
The Comprehensive Case Against Trump
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What Philosophers Know About Abortion That Most People Don't
10 min Original post
The Grisly Return of Holocaust Denial
11 min Original post
There Are Crazy People On Both The Left And Right: On The Right, They're The Heads of Government
7 min Original post
The "Freethinkers" Who Aren't
11 min Original post
You Should Admit Politically Inconvenient Truths
11 min Original post
Don't Eat Honey
12 min Original post
What The Most Detailed Report Ever Compiled On Existential Risks From Climate Change Found
41 min Original post
The Importance of Blasting Good Ideas Into The Ether
10 min Original post
The Horror Of Unfathomable Pain
13 min Original post
The Memefication of Thought
14 min Original post
Jordan Peterson Is Confused
9 min Original post
Activist Insanity Is Killing the Left
9 min Original post
Wokeness Didn't Die, It Moved to TikTok
6 min Original post
The Unfuck America Tour Is Why The Left Is Fucked
13 min Original post
Why I Think Trans Women Are Women
17 min Original post
Shoeonhead Doubles Down After Lying To Millions
9 min Original post
Shoeonhead's Insane Falsehoods About USAID
16 min Original post
Why I'm Not A Christian
53 min Original post
The Postmodern Right
12 min Original post
I Was Right About Trump
11 min Original post
Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue
17 min Original post
Does Reality Have A Liberal Bias?
7 min Original post
Against Nature
19 min Original post
Charlie Kirk's Bad Arguments
12 min Original post
The Right Demands Loyalty, The Left Demands Purity
7 min Original post
The Anti-Foreign Aid Right Is Low IQ
11 min Original post
Some People Are Just Evil And Their Whole Political Project Is Promoting Evil
7 min Original post
The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children
8 min Original post
Liberals, Can We Not?
6 min Original post
What To Do If You Love Meat But Hate Factory Farms?
6 min Original post
We Should Expect Most Public Intellectuals To Be A Stupid Person's Smart Person
9 min Original post
Arguments For God Tier-list
67 min Original post
The Woke Aren't Woke
9 min Original post
Nathan Robinson Is Confidently Wrong About Everything
11 min Original post
The Best Charity Isn't What You Think
11 min Original post
Trump Attempted A Coup
13 min Original post
Two Dogmas Of Feminism
15 min Original post
Shut Up About Slave Morality
12 min Original post
The Fine-Tuning Argument Simply Works
40 min Original post
Losing Faith In Contrarianism
9 min Original post
Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad At Epistemology.
10 min Original post
Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong
73 min Original post
May The Factory Farms Burn
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