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Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Becoming a Builder
Reading the classics has become underrated in my view, even in philosophy which is somewhat obsessed with them. Why isn't the epistemic critique vital to consequentialism? Because you typically have some idea what is the better course of action and then you should pursue that. There could be wide uncertainty, any action you take, there'll be wide uncertainty. But if say you pull away an innocent child from an oncoming speeding car, you've saved that child's life. You have no reason to think that child is the grandfather of the next Hitler. No more than under not saving the kid. So again, be a builder, do it. The kid might be the next Bill Gates or Mark Andre
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