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AMA | February 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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If the Spin Is Down, I Will Give Them All $20

If your goal is to maximize equality, but then within that constraint, you want to maximize the amount of wealth and happiness everyone has, if there was just a single world with probabilistic quantum events, you would accept that bargain. Now, I don't think that's a good moral philosophy, but in principle, you could invent moral theories, which differentiate between them. And so it's actually like not that different in spirit than the crazy example I came up with in the book. It's a little bit much more reasonable as a moral theory.

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