
Episode 42: Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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Do You Feel the Cost of What You're Doing?
Ampathy is basically sort of measure of bs. He's a consequentials, except his consequentials. Judgments are recorded in terms of varying degrees of amphathy. I think the world would be better if maryl street went on with her life and didn't commit suicide at the end,. and didn't suffer great as ow happens. But don't you think, though, that there's something too easy about pressing the button? And there's something not virtuous about just sacrificing an entire city, even if it is new york, and just not feeling the cost of that?"
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