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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Evil-Alternative

This is an example of the notion of well-being expanding to a degree that it incorporates everything we want it to. But clearly, if you were, say, maximizing happiness, which is what classic utilitarianism recommends, then the case of the evil-alternative would stand where you would actually encourage him to think these thoughts. He's just another heroin addict. You basically become an AI of meditating on Schadenfreude. And it turns out... it just turns out that we're living in a universe where that is just as good as turning the compassion dial to 11.

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