The Impossibility of Counting Lives and Experiences

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"It seems parochial and selfish to say that i should count people near to me and my moral calculus more than people far away from me," he says. "If we count potentially an infinite number of people, i mean, and we count all of them equally, then literally the only moral thing to do right now is to try to prevent the heat death of the universe." He adds: 'I don't think it should follow from any reason moral starting point'

Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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