Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Case of the Evil Genius and the Case of Ordinary Causation
Tamar: If an evil genius is putting the thoughts in your head and those thoughts lead you to to act badly in society well then you're a victim of the evil genius. Tamar: You don't deserve the punishment that you may get for what you've done. I think certainly most of us in individualistic societies are victims, he says. Tamer: The challenge is to see how the case of theevil genius and the case of ordinary causation are different in a more important sense.
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