Very Bad Wizards Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer
Apr 7, 2020
01:29:41
The legendary Peter Singer joins us to talk about effective altruism, AI, animal welfare, esoteric morality, future Tuesday indifference, and more. I mean, it’s Peter freakin’ Singer - what more do we need to say? Plus, the explosive ‘one or two spaces after a period' debate: has science resolved it?
Special Guest: Peter Singer.
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Links:
- Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick’s Practical Typography
- Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary [thanks to listener Kevin Litman-Navarro]
- Peter Singer - Wikipedia
- de Lazari-Radek, K., & Singer, P. (2017). Utilitarianism: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
- Singer, P. (2010). The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty. Random House Incorporated.
- "A Gadfly for the Greater Good" (Tamler's interview of Singer in his "A Very Bad Wizard" book)
- "A Very Bad Wizard" by Tamler Sommers [amazon affiliate link]