#2 - Consequentialism II: Strange Beliefs
from Increments Hosted by Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
An attempt to clean up the mess we made last episode. Ben still doesn't figure out how not to yell into his microphone, and Vaden finally realizes what Ben was saying and it was … perhaps not so interesting in the first place? Ben, all too pleased with himself, starts yammering on about future generations. Should we care? God — we promise that next week we’ll try to stick to whichever subject we pick. References: Why the long-term future matters, podcast with Toby Ord.
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- 0:00 Intro and episode recap
- 2:19 Main segment: untangling epistemic modesty
- 4:30 Deutsch vs Harris: two levels of moral reasoning
- 13:10 Truth vs belief — what epistemic modesty is actually about
- 18:00 Coronavirus as an epistemic modesty example
- 21:30 Inside view vs outside view
- 28:15 Unpopular opinions: free will, climate, future generations
- 32:10 Weighing future generations: long-termism introduced
- 43:45 Peter Singer's expanding moral circle
- 57:00 Discount rates and real-world stakes
- 1:06:55 Economic growth as the best moral driver
- 1:15:10 Career choices through a long-termist lens
- 1:23:05 Radical reform vs incremental change
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