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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Moral Logic in the Aftermath of Hiroshima

In the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we've got nuclear physicists imagining that they now need to play the geopolitical game. And in some cases, I think in von Neumann's case, he even recommended preventative war against the Soviet Union before they even got the bomb. He could have wanted us to bomb Moscow or at least give them some kind of ultimatum. In any case, that's the problem. If the thing you just said doesn't make any sense, well then your authority gets you exactly nowhere. Or it should.

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