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Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

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I'd Be on a Machine, but It Feels Like Real Life

In the past, were have an option to hook yourself up to a machine. You will then programe it in advance to have a bunch of experiences that you would choose. And if you aske people whether they would like to live that life, which would be on some level exhilarating. But i do think our world, maybe because it's less religious, i don't know, again, a religious person, wd not choose that, that life.

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