Ep 100: David Deutsch
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All Evils Are Due to a Lack of Knowledge
Claim that all evils are due to a lack of knowledge seems to be linking quite strongly epistemology, stuff about knowledge to evil. Isn't that a big leap? Surely, people who do evil things are doing evil things because of their ideas, which is to say, what they know. But even the good guys, their knowledge is better than the bad guys, but it's still not true. It's not perfect. It can be improved. And uniformly, the way to get better ideas is to try to get better explanations in the light of the problems one has with those ideas. That includes moral ones and mathematical ones and physical ones, and and so on.
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