Astral Codex Ten

Bentham’s Bulldog

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Bentham’s Bulldog

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Bentham’s Bulldog is a recurring Instagram account in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 29, 2024 and July 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Related: Bentham’s Bulldog has been going over some of the evidence for Christianity”; “thanks to Bentham’s Bulldog’s indefatigable pro-shrimp blogging”. It most often appears alongside Daniel Kokotajlo, FDA, Gaza.

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  • Category: Instagram Accounts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 29, 2024
  • Last seen: July 01, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Links for May 2024
May 29, 2024 · Original source
14: Related: Bentham’s Bulldog has been going over some of the evidence for Christianity, of which the most interesting is the story of St. Joseph of Cupertino (no, he didn’t work for Apple; it’s also a town in Italy - the Cupertino in California is named after him). Apparently St. Joseph could levitate, this was well-documented by everyone he met, and the Inquisition (which was concerned he might be a witch) investigated and got many eyewitness reports. Wikipedia has a more skeptical take, but I’m more interested in how well the Christianity hypothesis predicts this “evidence”.
Inline links: some of the evidence for Christianity, a more skeptical take
Links For July 2025
July 01, 2025 · Original source
29: The Daily Show did an episode on shrimp welfare, apparently thanks to Bentham’s Bulldog’s indefatigable pro-shrimp blogging. An inspiring story of how a single ordinary person, if they try hard and believe in themselves, can get their pet cause made fun of on national television (but in a good way, I think)!
Inline links: an episode on shrimp welfare, thanks to