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063: Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jason Snyder | High Tech, High Nature

Planetary Regeneration Podcast

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The Role of Utilitarian Ethics in the Future of Human Systems

Daniel Altschuler: We need to talk about what a longer-term viable set of global human systems must entail which doesn't necessarily say how do we enact them or what exactly they look like. He says the reconnection of the ends and the means is an important reminder that it's impossible for two approaches to be separated. The way in which utilitarian ethics are proliferating as we're doing planning ethics in the machine learning so that the self-driving car can decide who to kill, he asks. How many of this extinct nearly extinct species are worth how many of these not that extinct but maybe more sentient species? And does government step in to control social media algorithm settings knowing how problematic

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