Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Are You Behind a Veil of Ignorance?
Rolles's vale of ignorante argument is the biggest own girl in the history of moral philosophy. He acknowledged that he took it from hashani and changed it a little bit. And so he tweaked the initial set up. Instead, he said that rather than knowing the probability of being each person in society, all the information you get behind this veil of ignorance is that there is some person at a given level of welfare. You don't know how many people are atthat level of welfare,. So it's in a more impoverished informational state where you can say, ok, i know that someone is at welfare level four, and someone else is at welfarelevel a hundred. Bt.
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