Peter Singer

I'm leaving X.

Now that Musk is openly supporting Trump, and even tweaking algorithms to boost his own pro-Trump posts (independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk…), I don't want to support X in any way.

So, like many others, I’m moving to Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/peters…), a platform I hope will foster thoughtful discussion. Please join me there!

I’ll also remain active on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram - and on Substack, where you can find more details on my decision: …reasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/why-im-leavi…

Please read and share your thoughts.

Here's the ideal appetizer for the family Thanksgiving dinner... Get everyone a copy (it's only $9.95), ask them to read the first few pages of Chapter 3, and wait for the conversation to begin.
@PrincetonUPress press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Happy 15th birthday, @givingwhatwecan!

I can remember when you were just a baby. 

In fact, I knew you when you were just a twinkle in @tobyordoxford's eye. 

That was when I visited Oxford in June 2007, and he told me of his plans to start an organization that would tell people how important it is to give effectively, because the most effective organizations helping people in extreme poverty do hundreds of times as much good as the average organizations working in that area. 

He was already thinking of asking them to make a pledge. I expressed my enthusiasm to Toby, and the small group of supporters he had brought together to speak to me. 

And when GWWC was launched, I was very happy to make the 10% pledge.

It's been great to see GWWC continue to thrive, and cause a very substantial sum to be given more effectively than it would otherwise have been given. I'm pleased to have been a part of the movement.

On "Lives Well Lived," the podcast I host with @KasiaLazari, we spoke with Daniel Kahneman.

Kasia de Lazari-Radek: “What does it make to have a good life?”

Daniel Kahneman: “Well, in terms of the well-being of people, when you compare experienced well-being with evaluative well-being, with what people think about their lives, the most striking difference is that evaluative well-being is quite conventional. That is, success, education, having income are much more important to evaluative utility than to experienced utility. The experienced well-being depends primarily on how much time you spend with people you love. I mean, you know, if you had to choose one major determinant of happiness, that would be it. And if you were a full utilitarian, the less people spend with people they dislike, like their boss, for example, the better. For some working people, working closely with the boss they dislike, is torture, many hours a day.”

Read the extract on Substack: …reasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/new-podcast-…

Listen on Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/3NPxmjD
Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/4edwzDU

In my new @ProSyn column, I ask whether Kamala Harris would have won the US presidential election she had pushed back hard against the Trump campaign's storm of advertising portraying her as a radical on transgender issues.

I argue that, even if her policy on the treatment of trans people was fully justified, she should have taken a position more in line with the views of American working class voters.

project-syndicate.org/commentary/wha…