Death in a Shallow PondDavid Edmonds
Death in a Shallow Pond
by David Edmonds · first published 2025
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I expect the book itself (Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need, by David Edmonds) is good, as the author has written a lot of other solid books making philosophy accessible. The title of the article though,…
on “A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism” ↗…Altman, Elon Musk are a part of. The book is selling you on a belief system (i.e. System1/System2). Then it uses some cherry picked data to set up a straw man to rationalize his idea of how the mind works. Death in a Shallow Pond is a good rebuttal to this even if it doesn't address the book directly.
on “Thinking, Fast and Slow” ↗The book is titled "Death in a Shallow Pond" and seems to be all about Peter Singer. (I don't see a table of contents online.) The way I first heard of Effective Altruism, I think before it was called that, took a rather different approach. It…
on “A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism” ↗