Devin Kalish

Bio

I’m Devin, I met Nick through Rochester Institute of Technology’s Effective Altruism club. Many of my posts are edited versions of rants I previously posted on the club’s Discord. I have a BAAS in Physics and Literature and an MA in English, but mostly I write about philosophy. Currently I’m working on an MA in Bioethics.

Articles

• The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Wellbeing
• We Have Not Been Invited to the Future: e/acc and the Narrowness of the Way Ahead
• Appendices: "Some Observations on Alcoholism"
• [April Fools] Towards A Better Moral Circle
• Contra Ozy Brennan on Sex Addiction
• How the Fun Homes Work
• What Doesn't Matter To (or About) Free Will
• Some Problems with Comparing Factory Farming to the Holocaust
• A Taxonomy of Right Wing Thought
• Some Observations on Alcoholism
• Suicide is not "Selfish" or "Cowardly": In Defense of Focusing on the Person Whose Life is at Stake
• What is the Meaning of Life?
• Reaction to "Apology for an Old Email"
• On Fetuses and Farms
• Devin on the EA Forum: Volume 1
• Marginal Cases, On Trial
• Consequentialism: A Defense/Manifesto
• Partial Aggregation's Utility Monster
• Appendix: "Immortality and its Critics: Why Rationalism Should not Treat its Darling as Unpopular or Simple"
• The Bioethicists are (Mostly) Alright
• Effective Altruism, Before the Memes Started
• How Much of a Ratfic is Dr. Stone?
• Expected Value and Normative Gettier Problems
• Pascal's Wager is S-Tier
• The Shallowness of Hypocrisy
• Kalish Versus RadicalXChange
• Weyl Versus the Rationalists
• Ditch the President, Vote on the Cabinet
• The Dystopian Objection to Cryonics
• The Tragedy of Alternative Voting Methods
• Was Mary Shelley Utilitarian? Excerpts from my Senior Capstone
• Response to: "Why Meat is Moral, and Veggies are Immoral"
• Appendices:"Complexities of Free Speech: Some Approaches, Problems, and Reasons to Care"
• Appendices: "If We Talk About the Democratic Problems with Philanthropy, We Should Talk About the Limitations of Democracy"
• How Aggregation Can Fail Utilitarianism in the Most Important Ways [Presentation Video]
• If We Talk About the Democratic Problems with Philanthropy, We Should Talk About the Limitations of Democracy
• Immortality and its Critics: Why Rationalism Should not Treat its Darling as Unpopular or Simple
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Utilitarianism: A Review of Five Objections
• Complexities of Free Speech: Some Approaches, Problems, and Reasons to Care
• At Least in the West