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Effective altruism and the law of diminishing marginal effect
If you hold a weight of 10 grams in your left hand and 20 grams in your right hand, you will feel a difference, but if you hold a weight of 1,01 kilograms in your left hand and 1,02 kilograms … Lees verder
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Tags: effective altruism, moral illusions, rationality
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What if everyone was human?
Speciesism is discrimination based on species, where species membership is identified with moral community membership (i.e. where species membership determines someone’s moral status and rights). Like all kinds of discrimination, speciesism is a kind of unwanted arbitrariness: the victims of … Lees verder
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Tags: discrimination, speciesism, wild animal suffering
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The anti-experimentation bias
People should not be used as test objects, which means using someone against his or her will in an experiment is morally problematic and would require very strong justification. However, a lot of people are also reluctant to perform medical, … Lees verder
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Tags: cognitive bias, moral illusions, rationality
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Conflict of interest bias
In discussions about controversial topics such as climate change, vaccine safety, environmental sustainability, pesticide toxicity, chronic Lyme disease, male privilege or homeopathic therapies, we often hear the argument that scientific studies are biased due to financial conflicts of interest of … Lees verder
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Tags: cognitive bias, effective environmentalism, rationality, science
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The problem of counting persons and conscious experiences
Introduction All else equal, saving two people is better than saving one person, two hours of pain is worse than one hour of pain and an election candidate that has two votes from two people is more likely to win … Lees verder
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Tags: consciousness, ethical principles, well-being
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Being rational about nuclear power
Disclaimer: in the past I did several actions against nuclear power. This article does not reflect the opinions of the environmental organizations I am and was involved in. Effective environmentalism deals with the irrationalities in the environmental movement. These irrationalities … Lees verder
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Tags: effective altruism, effective environmentalism, environment, nuclear energy
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Mutagenese in de ggo-wetgeving
Het Europees Hof van Justitie oordeelde dat mutagenese onder de ggo-richtlijn valt. Mutagenese is een plantenveredelingstechniek waarbij straling of chemische stoffen mutaties veroorzaken in een plantengenoom en daardoor nieuwe genen creëren. Bij genetisch manipulatie (transgenese) worden daarentegen genen van andere … Lees verder
