Thanks for this great post and discussion—I really enjoyed the audio too.
I began to compose a comment here but then it rambled on and on, and dived into various weird rabbit holes, and then I realised I needed to do more reading.
I ended up writing a full-length essay over Easter and have just posted it on my new blog ‘Path findings’. I launched this a few weeks ago inspired by reading your post ‘Learning by Writing’ - and yay it seems that really works!
Riffing with Karnofsky on the value of present and future lives, to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of ‘Watership Down’, ‘Limits to Growth’ and the Alcor foundation…
I’d be thrilled if you could take a few moments to read or at least skim it, and would welcome any and all feedback, however brutal!
Up front I confess not all the arguments are consistent, and the puns are consistently terrible, but I hope it makes some kind of sense. It will appeal particularly to people who like philosophy, ecology and rabbits, and features a lovely illustration Lyndsey Green.
As a taster, here are some of the section headers (and most of the terrible puns):
Dear Holden and all Karnofskyites ,
Thanks for this great post and discussion—I really enjoyed the audio too.
I began to compose a comment here but then it rambled on and on, and dived into various weird rabbit holes, and then I realised I needed to do more reading.
I ended up writing a full-length essay over Easter and have just posted it on my new blog ‘Path findings’. I launched this a few weeks ago inspired by reading your post ‘Learning by Writing’ - and yay it seems that really works!
Anyway, here’s the post , fresh off the slab
Rabbits, robots and resurrection
Riffing with Karnofsky on the value of present and future lives, to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of ‘Watership Down’, ‘Limits to Growth’ and the Alcor foundation…
I’d be thrilled if you could take a few moments to read or at least skim it, and would welcome any and all feedback, however brutal!
Up front I confess not all the arguments are consistent, and the puns are consistently terrible, but I hope it makes some kind of sense. It will appeal particularly to people who like philosophy, ecology and rabbits, and features a lovely illustration Lyndsey Green.
As a taster, here are some of the section headers (and most of the terrible puns):
Warren peace: a brief history of British rabbits
Too many bunnies? Malthus bites back
Abundant lives: valuing people now and in future
Staying alive: trolling the trolley problems
Of bunnies and bugs: who qualifies as people?
Back to life, back to reality… being human
You have been warned!
Best regards,
Patrick