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Gay male sex workers in Tianjin, China
Unlocking the Red Closet is an ethnography of gay male sex workers in Tianjin, China.
Oct 22
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Ozy Brennan
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Unexpected costs of monogamy
Sometimes I get into arguments with people who think it’s morally wrong for me to be polyamorous.
Oct 20
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Ozy Brennan
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People often have traits you aren't aware of
Some experiences are very common, but many people who have them don’t talk about them:
Oct 15
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Ozy Brennan
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Hugo Nominees That Are Worth Reading (2025)
Poem A War of Words: Probably my favorite poem qua poem this year.
Oct 10
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Ozy Brennan
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Altruists are (often) interpersonally nicer
If you spend too much time on X, you’ve probably seen this annoying heatmaps meme:
Oct 8
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Ozy Brennan
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Reasoning under uncertainty about sentience
I am sentient: that is, I have experiences and feel both pleasure and pain.
Oct 6
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Ozy Brennan
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Against the concept of moral circles
A common metaphor is the idea of the expanding moral circle.
Oct 3
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Ozy Brennan
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Linkpost for September
Effective Altruism
Oct 1
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Ozy Brennan
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September 2025
On liking people
Naively, you would think that you add together all the good things someone does, subtract the bad things, and then if the result is positive you like…
Sep 29
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Ozy Brennan
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AIs can beat human fiction writers because humans are bad at writing fiction
AIs recently passed a fiction-writing Turing test. The lesson I learned from this is that, wow, humans are garbage at both writing and reading flash…
Sep 26
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Ozy Brennan
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On Thought Experiments
I am continually haunted by terrible thought experiments.
Sep 24
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Ozy Brennan
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What Do People Mean When They Say People Need Sex?
Sometimes people discourse about whether regular sex is necessary for a good marriage, or whether a dead bedroom is wronging your partner in some way…
Sep 19
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Ozy Brennan
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