#29 Reducing Suffering

 

Jason & I talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism & effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism & some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary & how it may affect animals & humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production & factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more.

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Givewell

David Pearce

David Deutsch

Twitter Questions

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

Mind in Life by Evan Thompson

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger

Metzinger & Harris Podcast: The Nature of Consciousness

Evan's Blog


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