The easiest exercise in the moral philosophy book

Shtetl-Optimized 2021-04-26

Summary:

Peter Singer, in the parable that came to represent his whole worldview and that of the effective altruism movement more generally, asked us to imagine that we could save a drowning child at the cost of jumping into a lake and ruining an expensive new suit. Assuming we’d do that, he argued that we do […]

Link:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5481

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Online Mathematical Communication » Shtetl-Optimized

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against

Authors:

Scott

Date tagged:

04/26/2021, 00:43

Date published:

04/25/2021, 16:04