Bentham’s Bulldog
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Bentham’s Bulldog is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between September 10, 2024 and December 17, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “local Substacker Bentham’s Bulldog is a sophomore philosophy student”; “with additional commentary from Dylan and Bentham’s Bulldog”; “Bentham’s Bulldog also thinks you should take the pledge - here’s his post”. It most often appears alongside ACX, God, 10,000 AD.
Metadata
- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: September 10, 2024
- Last seen: December 17, 2025
Appears In
- Contra DeBoer On Temporal Copernicanism
- The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- The Pledge
Related Pages
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- God (2 shared issues)
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- 10,000 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 1910s Portugal (1 shared issues)
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- 1999 British eclipse (1 shared issues)
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- 2017 US eclipse (1 shared issues)
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- A Ordem (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham Lincoln (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni’s blog (1 shared issues)
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- Afonso Vieria (1 shared issues)
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- Against Malaria Foundation (1 shared issues)
External Links
Source Context
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.
(local Substacker Bentham’s Bulldog is a sophomore philosophy student, and his anthropics mistakes are much more interesting.)
Inline links: Bentham’s Bulldog, much more interesting
Now its fame has reached Substack. Ethan Muse presents the case in favor, and Evan Harkness-Murphy the case against, with additional commentary from Dylan and Bentham’s Bulldog. I don’t think any of them have risen to the occasion. Ethan observes the formalities of good debate, but presents such a neatly-packaged story that readers are liable to miss the thousand little threads that trail off the bottom and lead places that are, if anything, even stranger than the original miracle. Evan puts admirable effort into arguing that child-seers could have non-veridical visions, but by the time he gets to the sun miracle itself, he has only a few potshots about crowd psychology and “optical phenomena”. Other skeptics are even worse, barely gesturing at Evan’s piece before redirecting their attention to boasts about how they have totally demolished the credulous fundies, or laments about how cosmically unfair it is that they must take time out of their busy schedules to respond to such idiocy. The final boss of the paranormal deserves more respect!
UPDATE: Bentham’s Bulldog also thinks you should take the pledge - here’s his post. And I’ll match his offer - take the full 10% pledge this month, and comment below so that I know about it, and I’ll give you a free lifetime subscription to ACX.
Inline links: here’s his post