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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Utilitarianism and the FTX Implosion

The FTX implosion that recently occurred is arguably in part because of taking some of the deep core philosophical motives of effective altruism too seriously and trying to bring it into the real world. The movement has its origins in a lot of these intellectual thought experiments that are based around utilitarianism. And so, you know, I ended up writing a couple essays in response to this call for self-criticism.

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