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Moral Philosopher Will MacAskill on What We Owe The Future
Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
Aan Jones Is the Sniper, and Smith Is the Newer Scientist
Aan jones, brown and smith are three men who want to kill each other. Smith has implanted an electrode into Jones's head such that if ones wer to decide, oh, actuallyi've changed my mind. And the electrode is such that if jones changes his mind, yup, i'll take over his body and he'll shoot brown. So from jones perspective, h s like, i'm going to kill that guy brown here, buys a gun, goes shoots him. Seems like free action, if anything is free. However, it couldn't have done otherwise. If he'd chosen not to kill brown, yes, the electrode would have activated and his
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