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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Reductios of Utilitarianism

Nozick: We're basically talking about versions of Nozick's utility monsters who get so much utility that humans are sort of inconsequential next to them. In his original example, it's something like a race of intelligent cats, like hyper intelligent alien cats. He says there's no way utilitarian could give me an equation that would allow this well granted, I can tell it's in cats to hunt my child, right? ButYeah, but in this case, yeah, because in this situation, you're the chicken. And he argues we have intuitions of further consequences that are not being captured.

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