I am sympathetic to:

• effective altruism (EA) — roughly, the use of evidence and careful analysis to figure out the best ways of making the world a better place, and;
• the long-term value thesis — the idea that most of the moral value of our actions is determined by their consequences more than 100 years in the future.

Some top research interest are:

• how to prioritise the world's problems in order to figure out how to improve it as much as possible;
• reducing the risk of global catastrophes, especially those caused by powerful new technologies, or that might cause human extinction;
• how to increase people's general benevolence towards all beings, including those far away from them, non-human animals, and future generations, and;
• efforts to end factory farming through moral advocacy and food technology.

Here's a checklist of questions I often work through when something unpleasant happens, in order to reframe the situation and get over it as quickly as possible.

I've written about 'Ugh tasks' — tasks that you gradually come to feel terrible about not having done but can't bring yourself to do — which I think are a very underrated mental health issue.

Here are some of my thoughts on exercise, why it's so important, and how to get into it.

Here's a quiz where you can test your ability to predict which psychology studies can be replicated, and which can't, based on a brief description.

I made a 60 second guide to increasing your chance of surviving an imminent nuclear attack.

I love house music and dance — here's a Spotify playlist of 900 tracks I like and a bunch of mixes I love on SoundCloud.