Neil Sinhababu
@neilsinhababu.bsky.social
Philosophy professor born in Kansas and working in Singapore
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In the present US, military generals have less power than businessmen with 12-digit wealth. That kind of money makes everyone else subservient.
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In the present US, military generals have less power than businessmen with 12-digit wealth. That kind of money makes everyone else subservient.
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imperialist baguette + revolutionary filling = delicious bahn mi
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
imperialist baguette + revolutionary filling = delicious bahn mi
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exactly!
Kirk / Spock gay fanfic by women authors is the foundation of our culture
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
exactly!
Good local research from good historians here in Singapore!
Delighted to announce our forthcoming book with the excellent DeGruyterBrill, co -edited with Charles Burgess. Hardback coming in early November, e version end December. All chapters original archival research, keynote by Frank Dikotter.
October 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Good local research from good historians here in Singapore!
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Musk is not an EA. He never took the donation pledge or gave any significant money to EA causes. People mistake him for an EA because he’s a Silicon Valley rich guy but it’s pure stolen valor.
Effective Breeder is more like it. Effective Killer too with the USAID cuts.
Effective Breeder is more like it. Effective Killer too with the USAID cuts.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Musk is not an EA. He never took the donation pledge or gave any significant money to EA causes. People mistake him for an EA because he’s a Silicon Valley rich guy but it’s pure stolen valor.
Effective Breeder is more like it. Effective Killer too with the USAID cuts.
Effective Breeder is more like it. Effective Killer too with the USAID cuts.
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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
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The economic argument for doing fundamental (non-applied) scientific research is that it has a FANTASTIC return on investment. That return may take decades, and you can't predict it, but it has worked out like this since science began. Basic discoveries lead to tech advances, eventually.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The economic argument for doing fundamental (non-applied) scientific research is that it has a FANTASTIC return on investment. That return may take decades, and you can't predict it, but it has worked out like this since science began. Basic discoveries lead to tech advances, eventually.
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it seemed like it should be a waste of Krugman's particular talents to write columns just saying "look at this terrible thing W. did. he sucks." because that doesn't take an Economics Nobel
but nobody was consistently saying W. sucked like him, so he really did have comparative advantage there
but nobody was consistently saying W. sucked like him, so he really did have comparative advantage there
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
it seemed like it should be a waste of Krugman's particular talents to write columns just saying "look at this terrible thing W. did. he sucks." because that doesn't take an Economics Nobel
but nobody was consistently saying W. sucked like him, so he really did have comparative advantage there
but nobody was consistently saying W. sucked like him, so he really did have comparative advantage there
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Nobody really knows what's going on foodwise in rural India. You'll keep finding amazing new things as you go from one cluster of remote villages to another – herbs and spices that outsiders have never tasted, curries with fish roe.
September 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Nobody really knows what's going on foodwise in rural India. You'll keep finding amazing new things as you go from one cluster of remote villages to another – herbs and spices that outsiders have never tasted, curries with fish roe.
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I said we'd miss Pelosi and I meant it
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I said we'd miss Pelosi and I meant it
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...could not be converted into political power that would ultimately subvert the guardrails it relied upon. This is, I think, a real deep flaw of the post Thatcher-Reagan consensus; it does indeed empower its own gravediggers, and they're the elite. A kinda inverse of the end of the Pinochet regime.
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
...could not be converted into political power that would ultimately subvert the guardrails it relied upon. This is, I think, a real deep flaw of the post Thatcher-Reagan consensus; it does indeed empower its own gravediggers, and they're the elite. A kinda inverse of the end of the Pinochet regime.
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Nice discussion here, btw. No flaming plz. Read quotations.
Despite Nietzsche's affection for the aristocratic Greek and Roman societies he studied, he was a pretty serious anti-fascist where his own times were concerned.
His sister actually was a proto-Nazi (Hitler attended her funeral) and marketed his ideas to Nazis. Nietzsche was not happy about this.
His sister actually was a proto-Nazi (Hitler attended her funeral) and marketed his ideas to Nazis. Nietzsche was not happy about this.
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nice discussion here, btw. No flaming plz. Read quotations.
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When I teach Hobbes, I tell students that he was a refugee from a developing-country civil war.
August 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
When I teach Hobbes, I tell students that he was a refugee from a developing-country civil war.
Tonight’s low tide sunset on Koh Yao Noi
July 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Tonight’s low tide sunset on Koh Yao Noi
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Neil Sinhababu explores how empathic experiences represent others’ feelings as our own, challenging global externalism about content. It applies this to moral feelings, helping naturalistic metaethics address Moral Twin Earth problems and defend moral universality.
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Neil Sinhababu, Empathic representation - PhilPapers
In empathic representation, experiences represent others’ experiences as the same as themselves. Feeling sad in empathizing with your friend represents your friend as feeling sad. The unusual role of…
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July 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Neil Sinhababu explores how empathic experiences represent others’ feelings as our own, challenging global externalism about content. It applies this to moral feelings, helping naturalistic metaethics address Moral Twin Earth problems and defend moral universality.
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"Digital Sovereignty" sounds abstract but this poll shows *exactly* what it means: who has power to set rules that shape our lives.
Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?
Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Digital Sovereignty" sounds abstract but this poll shows *exactly* what it means: who has power to set rules that shape our lives.
Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?
Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?
My reptile neighbors at the pool on a hot day in Singapore
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My reptile neighbors at the pool on a hot day in Singapore
Alt-right Derrida has entered the chat
June 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Alt-right Derrida has entered the chat
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"Newspapers in the North were especially vigorous in upholding the independence of Haiti...One Boston newspaper even compared the Haitians' experience to America's own. "Their case," said the Centinel, "is not dissimilar to that of the people of the United States in 1778-1800.""
June 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Newspapers in the North were especially vigorous in upholding the independence of Haiti...One Boston newspaper even compared the Haitians' experience to America's own. "Their case," said the Centinel, "is not dissimilar to that of the people of the United States in 1778-1800.""
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A short, co-authored piece with Emad Atiq, giving a metaethical response to recent criticisms of empathy from Musk and others.
Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength
Empathy affords us a more accurate understanding of others’ experiences and emotions. Just like pain, it can be hard to bear – but that’s also the source of its strength.
theconversation.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A short, co-authored piece with Emad Atiq, giving a metaethical response to recent criticisms of empathy from Musk and others.
Last weekend I went hiking in Fundy National Park, up in Canada.
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Last weekend I went hiking in Fundy National Park, up in Canada.
Took a long lovely walk in Ireland yesterday
April 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Took a long lovely walk in Ireland yesterday
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
April 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
I saw a monitor lizard at the park today!
April 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I saw a monitor lizard at the park today!