Sigal Samuel

A lot of humans are feeling very down on humanity these days. Maybe you’ve met them. Or maybe you’re one of them.    I’m talking about those who look around and say: Humans are destroying the plane...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

Sentience is hot these days. Partly because of the development of impressive new AI systems, everyone seems to be asking: How do we know if something is sentient?  While consciousness means simply ...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

The idea that you need to save up a certain amount of money before having kids is so common it can feel almost like a moral law.  But it isn’t, and I said as much recently when a reader wrote in to...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

I work with a lot of very smart people, and sometimes one of them asks me a question that stops me in my tracks. That’s what happened after I published the newest installment of my advice column, Y...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

The most unique thing about human beings is this: We are creatures who long to matter. That’s according to Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, the philosopher and author of a new book called The Mattering...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

If you’ve been taking antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications for years, you might have certain questions. Do you still need the medication? How would you know if you didn’t? Does it make sense...

American AI companies love to say that the US must win the AI arms race, or China will.  Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all invoked the threat of a Chinese victory to justify s...

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...

Internal Family Systems has become a wildly popular form of therapy over the past few years. Some of my friends swear by it. But after trying IFS myself and studying some of its underlying assumpti...