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Episode 12: Nick Bostrom

Morality in the 21st Century

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Is There a New Factor in Owl Domestication?

In this little fable, there is a flock of sparrows sitting around in the afternoon sun. One of them has the bright idea you could set out on this quest to find maybe an owl eggr maybe a baby weasel,. and then you could raise it. And so the flock gets really excited and immediately sets off on this quest  to try to bring back to nest an owl egg. But only one sparrow, a scrongwinkle, and a couple of his friends, stay behind. They say, hey, shouldn't we give some consideration to what we're going to do with this owl leg? We haven't studied the art of owl domestication. Should

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