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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Error Correction in Ethics

I think there's an almost axiomatic claim about the primacy of safeguarding the well-being of conscious creatures at the bottom of any sane moral enterprise, right? You know, it's not how you think about well-being, how you aspire to measure it or quantify it. I think those are the bootstraps in some form that we have to pull ourselves up by. It is a very notable fact that basically all plausible model views that are on the table see, you know, well-being as one part of the good.

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