Brian Tomasik — Collected Writings

TL;DR — 3,675 pages of one person’s essays on suffering, wild-animal welfare and ethics, collected from a lifetime of writing online.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Explicitly free / author-released / CC.

3,675 pages. Tomasik’s own framing is the first thing on it: “This page collects some texts I’ve written throughout my lifetime. Note that I don’t necessarily endorse things I wrote in the past; for example, pieces older than late 2005 ignore animal suffering, including wild-animal suffering, which I now think is among the most important issues.”

He is a central figure in the suffering-focused ethics strand of effective altruism, best known for taking wild-animal suffering seriously as a moral problem at scale.

The interesting artifact is the form: a complete personal corpus, self-collected, with an explicit disclaimer that the author has changed his mind. Very few writers publish their own back catalogue and say which parts they now reject.

Where this came from

• Added directly to the collection.

3675 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.