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Rationally Speaking #181 - William MacAskill on "Moral Uncertainty"

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The Paracola Uncertainty and Decision-Making

In general, it's pretty well accepted that the rational thing to do under empirical uncertainty is something like maximizing expected value. But now the question is if that's the case for moral uncertainty, is it also the case for uncertainty about your values or what's morally the case? We shouldn't worry about harming or killing animals in just the same way as we shouldn’t worry about destroying a box or something that are non-sentient.

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