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Robin McKenna's avatar

With the “vibe shift” etc the time is ripe for the first “actually the woke were right about everything” contrarian poece.

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Victor Kumar's avatar

Actually, the woke were right about everything at one time, coincidentally that was when I hit my progressive peak in my late 20s

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

You should write about shrimp!

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Robin McKenna's avatar

Too derivative. What about bivalve welfare?

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Victor Kumar's avatar

I may, though what I have in mind is skepticism about theories of moral standing.

Also Josh May and I have a EA-adjacent book under review about reducetarianism. Will be writing more about that soon.

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Which theories of moral standing are you skeptical of?

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Victor Kumar's avatar

Even sentientism, the worst one except for all the others

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Interesting!

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Rebecca Lowe's avatar

Congrats on the 1000! And thank you for the kind mention!

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Michael Inzlicht's avatar

I love your Substack Victor...and thanks for the shoutout!

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Michael Inzlicht's avatar

Also...are you a fellow Canadian?

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Victor Kumar's avatar

So kind! I am…did I give it away?

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Michael Inzlicht's avatar

Yes with your kindness, intelligence, and wit. (I also e-stalked you and saw your Canadian uni background!).

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Victor Kumar's avatar

Don’t forget our modesty!

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Daniel Muñoz's avatar

Congrats, Victor!

Also I lol'd at the line about 2012 Q&As.

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Victor Kumar's avatar

A warning for future Q&As!

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Daniel Muñoz's avatar

Indeed. A wise chair will do what I always do:

1. Write down the queue,

2. Make a big show of feeding everybody's names into a random-number generator, and

3. Call on the big shots.

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Victor Kumar's avatar

Hahaha

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Phillip Barbb - Life Coach's avatar

Congrats. Thanks for sharing. Very cool as someone just getting rolling to have reasonable exceptions.

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Glenn Street's avatar

Great post. Congratulations on 1000 subscribers! I particularly liked your “How do I post regularly?” paragraph. This is very inspiring.

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