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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Impossibility of Being a Psychopath in Westworld

Westworld would be a theme park for psychopaths and you would have to be a psychopath in order to mistreat something that seemed so human. You would view other people who could mistreat robots in this way as well because it's just exactly what you described as the Garland test. And maybe we're going to see that in the next 10 or 20 years with a development of sex robots. That's going to happen. Maybe there's a more gradual process in which the existence of these sorts of opportunities turns people into psychopaths eventually.

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