
Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Illusion of Blame and Punishment in the Evil Neuroscientist Scientist Case
"The perfect candidate for blame and punishment is the hypothetical me that drunk drives and hits a kid on the way home," he says. "I'm still going to feel very strongly more more strongly than I feel about the evil neuroscientist scientist case." He argues it's an important intuition that has to be accounted for, but doesn't see how this distinction makes any difference.
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