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Episode 63: Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)

Very Bad Wizards

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Is Free Will More Compassionate Than Utilitarianism?

Tegetle: I think we should divorce is from the utilitarianism. The actual consequence for me of the illusoriness of free will, as i do, is to be much more compassionate and a much less hateful of of bad actors. Ewhe, whenever i find myself hating someone, the consideration that they could not be other than they are puts me in a much more balanced frame of mind with respect to them. And then i can just think rationally about what is consequentially good for me and and for the world. But when when i'm lost in infixating on their agency as the real authors of their mental states and actions, i'm i ders get caught

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