Rafael Ruiz

"I may not get results, but I follow the rules, dammit!" —Kant

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.

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International Shrimpact Day 2025 - FarmKind

And here's the fundraiser!

It's already preloaded with my link to donate. If you use this link, you'll get a 50% match, courtesy of Farmkind, so each of your dollars goes further helping more of them!

www.farmkind.giving/internationa...

Expanding the Moral Circle from Cows to Shrimp How I Talked Myself into Caring about Shrimp (and Maybe You Should Too)

I hope you read it and consider donating so they don't have to suffer when they die.

Each dollar helps thousands of shrimp suffer less horrible deaths!

open.substack.com/pub/themoral...

I and a bunch of other philosophers and bloggers are collecting money for shrimp welfare.

Here's my post for Shrimpact Week, on my journey from cow welfare towards shrimp welfare. Link below.

*removes a single neuron, destroying your ability to think* nothing personnel kid

arxiv.org/abs/2411.07191

Grades of Mind: Agency, Memory, Sentience “In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide…

Excited about the Grades of Mind workshop at LSE today! Hosted by @birchlse.bsky.social and featuring Nick Shea, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and more.

My talk will be about agency and moral standing, challenging the view that robust agents but not basic agents matter for their own sakes.

Join us!

I made a blog post broadly defending the "woke" ideology (particularly with the aim to share it with people on "X").

American politics are corrupting the world, so I feel like it needed to be said.

themoralcircle.substack.com/p/being-woke...

I reload the TL and the tweets don't even change. I'm bored of this website already. Where's the predatory algorithm when you need it

I think it's really bad that we split the discourse into two websites. Twitter ("X") is getting full of right-wingers but some of the echo chamber stuff I'm reading from here isn't particularly stellar either

Negative dialectics is when Twitter (synthesis) split into X (thesis) and BlueSky (antithesis). We're doing dialectics backwards

Just checking out this side of the Twitter divide 👀