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#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It Possible to Converge Towards an Objective Um Function?
I could foresee the ability to estimate well-being of whatever whatever we public we together collectively agree and is in a good objective function for from a utilitarian perspective. Do you think it's possible to converge towards an agreement amongst humans but towards an objective um function is just a hopeless pursuit? I don't think it's hopeless I think it's difficult it would be difficult to get converged towards agreement at least at present because some people would say you should give priority to those who are worse off than others. The fact that we wouldn't get agreement doesn't show that there isn't a right answer, do you know what I'm talking about?" "It's some complicated nonlinear function," he
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