History nerd, reader, writer. Main worries: Extreme poverty, X-risk, metaphorical X-risk in the form of a war that is not an existential risk to humanity as a whole but still kills me and everyone I know and possibly destroys civilization as we know it.

Not a vegetarian, but would like to do a serious long-term analysis of costs and benefits at some point, so if you have any really really good arguments for it that are not incompatible with a total-sum utilitarian the-repugnant-conclusion-is-not-all-that-repugnant perspective, I’m happy to hear them.