Nathan Barnard
@nathan-barnard.bsky.social
Lots of people who have primarily known me over the last two years I think have a pretty incorrect impression of me in a lot of ways because I've spent the last 2 years being seriously mentally ill for a year and then moderately mentally ill for a year.
January 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lots of people who have primarily known me over the last two years I think have a pretty incorrect impression of me in a lot of ways because I've spent the last 2 years being seriously mentally ill for a year and then moderately mentally ill for a year.
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found writing really brutal for the last 3 weeks, and now it's so easy
December 9, 2024 at 4:04 AM
found writing really brutal for the last 3 weeks, and now it's so easy
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The audiobook for Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is 70% off until January 2! Excellent stocking stuffer for anyone who wants to bask in misery about pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes during the holidays :)
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In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pande...
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December 5, 2024 at 5:59 PM
The audiobook for Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is 70% off until January 2! Excellent stocking stuffer for anyone who wants to bask in misery about pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes during the holidays :)
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Ingrid Newkirk, the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (@officialpeta.bsky.social), talks about the disturbing reality of animal experimentation, highlighting the many animals subjected to tests that cause them to suffer without benefitting humans.
Ingrid Newkirk on Animal Experimentation
YouTube video by Peter Singer
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Ingrid Newkirk, the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (@officialpeta.bsky.social), talks about the disturbing reality of animal experimentation, highlighting the many animals subjected to tests that cause them to suffer without benefitting humans.
does anyone have strong nuclear winter takes
December 2, 2024 at 12:56 AM
does anyone have strong nuclear winter takes
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NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?
This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown
Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?
1/8
@thetimes.com
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown
Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?
1/8
@thetimes.com
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 AM
NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?
This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown
Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?
1/8
@thetimes.com
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown
Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?
1/8
@thetimes.com
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
Literally all of mine are children's authors.
Elena Ferrante
Emile Zola
Javier Marias
Len Deighton
Georges Simenon
Emile Zola
Javier Marias
Len Deighton
Georges Simenon
5 authors I've read 5 or more books by:
Graham Greene
Gore Vidal
Andrew Crumey
Milan Kundera
Spike Milligan
Graham Greene
Gore Vidal
Andrew Crumey
Milan Kundera
Spike Milligan
November 29, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Literally all of mine are children's authors.
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Verified my account, so my handle is now my (new) domain name, alexlizhill.com (which is where you can find my Substack now).
It was super easy, see bsky.social/about/blog/4...
It was super easy, see bsky.social/about/blog/4...
alexlizhill.com | Alex Hill | Substack
Former logician. Aspiring health economist. Thinking about philosophy, econ, public health, history, feminism, and lots of other things! Click to read alexlizhill.com, by Alex Hill, a Substack publica...
alexlizhill.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Verified my account, so my handle is now my (new) domain name, alexlizhill.com (which is where you can find my Substack now).
It was super easy, see bsky.social/about/blog/4...
It was super easy, see bsky.social/about/blog/4...
a different tone from the rest of my blog open.substack.com/pub/thegoodb...
Ranking the Narnia books
It's my blog and I'll write what I want to
open.substack.com
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM
a different tone from the rest of my blog open.substack.com/pub/thegoodb...
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We've just launched our AI Benchmarking Hub!
This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8)
epoch.ai/blog/introdu...
This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8)
epoch.ai/blog/introdu...
November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
We've just launched our AI Benchmarking Hub!
This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8)
epoch.ai/blog/introdu...
This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8)
epoch.ai/blog/introdu...
A reply to a Michael Huemer post from march thegoodblog.substack.com/p/a-response...
A response to Michael Huemer on why progressives like Islam
I initially wrote this as a note which I couldn't post and it would make me sad if I couldn't post it somehow
thegoodblog.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:40 PM
A reply to a Michael Huemer post from march thegoodblog.substack.com/p/a-response...
It's kinda wild that Messi is inhumanly good and a better player is kinda obviously possible (more two-footed, faster, taller, probably)
November 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
It's kinda wild that Messi is inhumanly good and a better player is kinda obviously possible (more two-footed, faster, taller, probably)
I had about three weeks 2 years when my OCD was sufficiently bad that I strongly preferred to be asleep than being awake, and I tried to be asleep a lot. I think this is the only sustained period of my life that has been net negative from a self-interested point of view.
I never thought much about euthanasia until I had hyperemesis. I suddenly realized what it meant for life to be worse than death. My illness was acute, but the idea of suffering like that without escape was horrifying. That's when I became convinced legalising euthanasia was a pressing moral issue.
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I had about three weeks 2 years when my OCD was sufficiently bad that I strongly preferred to be asleep than being awake, and I tried to be asleep a lot. I think this is the only sustained period of my life that has been net negative from a self-interested point of view.
Both medication and therapy have been very helpful for me in managing OCD
I'm pretty tired of the narrative that psych medication "numbs", "dulls", "dampens down" and therapy is the real cure this week 🥱
Why assume therapy can never acclimatise a person to an unjust world? Why assume medication doesn't treat just because we don't know for sure?
Why assume therapy can never acclimatise a person to an unjust world? Why assume medication doesn't treat just because we don't know for sure?
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Both medication and therapy have been very helpful for me in managing OCD
I think this is basically bad. This looks to me like a pretty base form of social conservatism that is opposed to difference and creativity outside of an established mould.
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 23, 2024 at 12:57 PM
I think this is basically bad. This looks to me like a pretty base form of social conservatism that is opposed to difference and creativity outside of an established mould.
The amount of nate silver hate is bizarre.
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 PM
The amount of nate silver hate is bizarre.
Hi I'm nathan and my handwriting is illegile and I can't spell
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇
I'm Randi, and I'm often in another world.
I'm Randi, and I'm often in another world.
November 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Hi I'm nathan and my handwriting is illegile and I can't spell
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Open Phil is hiring a Program Officer to lead new program on economic growth in LMICs
Deadline 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth.
Can be based anywhere!
JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth
Rationale: bit.ly/lmicgrowth-research
Referrals: bit.ly/openphil-referrals
1/n
Deadline 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth.
Can be based anywhere!
JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth
Rationale: bit.ly/lmicgrowth-research
Referrals: bit.ly/openphil-referrals
1/n
Program Officer, Economic Growth in LMICs
Open Philanthropy is looking to hire a Program Officer to lead our new program: economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
bit.ly
November 20, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Open Phil is hiring a Program Officer to lead new program on economic growth in LMICs
Deadline 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth.
Can be based anywhere!
JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth
Rationale: bit.ly/lmicgrowth-research
Referrals: bit.ly/openphil-referrals
1/n
Deadline 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth.
Can be based anywhere!
JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth
Rationale: bit.ly/lmicgrowth-research
Referrals: bit.ly/openphil-referrals
1/n
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I've used the term "vegetative state" myself in the past, but the whole category needs retiring now, for reasons I explain in this piece for Stat News. www.statnews.com/2024/11/20/v...
The term ‘vegetative state’ has no place in modern medicine
Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position to make that diagnosis.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I've used the term "vegetative state" myself in the past, but the whole category needs retiring now, for reasons I explain in this piece for Stat News. www.statnews.com/2024/11/20/v...
currently writing terribly
November 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM
currently writing terribly
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Back in 1996, 88% of all eggs in the UK were laid by hens kept in cages. In the latest data this is down to 28%.
A big win in improving animal welfare.
A big win in improving animal welfare.
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Back in 1996, 88% of all eggs in the UK were laid by hens kept in cages. In the latest data this is down to 28%.
A big win in improving animal welfare.
A big win in improving animal welfare.
it's pretty cool watching a network effect in real time
November 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
it's pretty cool watching a network effect in real time
started reading Augustine's Confessions
November 19, 2024 at 1:08 PM
started reading Augustine's Confessions
Luxembourg has double the population of Iceland. Feel like Luxembourg really needs to up its game.
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Luxembourg has double the population of Iceland. Feel like Luxembourg really needs to up its game.