Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Playing the Odds
I think the world would have been happy, like a happier, better place had he not risen to power. If there's no World War II that we win, that somewhat stabilizes through the Cold War period. For all we know, the original Holocaust killed one million Jews and someone went back in time and killed the original dictator in Hitler rose to power. We have no way of knowing whether that happened. But these are the things you have to play the odds. And the Holocaust was bad enough that I would just roll the dice.
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