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The Scientific Worldview


Dec 23, 2024

This episode features:

-Should a doctor kill one patient to save five?

-Is nationalism good or bad?

-Which is more morally valuable, a pig or 1000 squirrels?

-Are fish conscious?

-Are trees morally valuable?

-Should we care about AIs even if they aren't conscious?

-Are you obligated to keep a promise you made to a dead person?

-Is art valuable even if nobody looks at it?

-Is withdrawing life-support the same as murder?

-Which is better: an unequal world with more happiness, or an equal world with less happiness?

-Is it wrong to favor your child over a random stranger?

-Is love bad?

-Is an immortal lizard more valuable than all of humanity?

-Is utilitarianism useless in an infinite universe?