Vasco Grilo🔸

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I am a generalist quantitative researcher. I am open to volunteering and paid work. I welcome suggestions for posts. You can give me feedback here (anonymously or not).

The pen and paper argument against computational functionalism

Vasco Grilo🔸3 May 2026 11:22 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(cf-debate.com)

Egalitarianism Is False

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Apr 2026 16:27 UTC

12 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

(benthams.substack.com)

List of my Favorite Named Adages, Aphorisms, Dictums, Laws, Maxims, and Rules to Live By

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2026 16:57 UTC

14 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

(www.pasteurscube.com)

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness

Vasco Grilo🔸17 Apr 2026 16:38 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(philpapers.org)

Bird-safe glass may impact arthropods much more than birds?

Vasco Grilo🔸12 Apr 2026 8:52 UTC

30 points

18 comments6 min readEA link

Infinite Dust Specks Are Worse Than One Torture

Vasco Grilo🔸7 Apr 2026 16:22 UTC

33 points

29 comments11 min readEA link

(benthams.substack.com)

Only What Is Alive Can Be Conscious

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Apr 2026 16:25 UTC

13 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

(www.noemamag.com)

Controlling the fertility of rodents may impact soil ants and termites much more than rodents?

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Mar 2026 9:32 UTC

10 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Chicken welfare reforms may impact soil ants and termites much more than chickens?

Vasco Grilo🔸23 Mar 2026 17:16 UTC

17 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Consciousness will slip through our fingers

Vasco Grilo🔸18 Mar 2026 17:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(dynomight.substack.com)

Estimation of the benefits of accelerating welfare reforms

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Mar 2026 17:29 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Digging In Your Heels

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Mar 2026 10:31 UTC

19 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(homosabiens.substack.com)

Are you overestimating the importance of the probability of sentience?

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Mar 2026 18:09 UTC

26 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

How I read studies

Vasco Grilo🔸26 Feb 2026 17:34 UTC

28 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

(regressiontothemeat.substack.com)

All pains are comparable?

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Feb 2026 9:46 UTC

20 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Consider advocating for furnished cages instead of cage-free aviaries?

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Feb 2026 17:47 UTC

24 points

23 comments5 min readEA link

Concepts to improve your thinking

Vasco Grilo🔸11 Feb 2026 17:29 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(conceptually.org)

The shrimp bet: When big numbers outsprint the evidence

Vasco Grilo🔸6 Feb 2026 17:30 UTC

45 points

7 comments18 min readEA link

(robvelzeboer.substack.com)

Dwarkesh Patel’s thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Feb 2026 9:28 UTC

30 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(www.dwarkesh.com)

Unfalsifiable stories of doom

Vasco Grilo🔸27 Jan 2026 17:35 UTC

101 points

88 comments11 min readEA link

(www.mechanize.work)