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EP69: Mathematical Morality (ft. Émile P. Torres)

EP69: Mathematical Morality (ft. Émile P. Torres)

FromDarts and Letters


EP69: Mathematical Morality (ft. Émile P. Torres)

FromDarts and Letters

ratings:
Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description



The collapse of the crypotcurrency exchange FTX has is forcing a reckoning in the financial world, with calls intensifying to reign in and regulate these emerging technologies. It's also forcing a philosophical reckoning about the ideas that inspired their CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. SBF is a major proponent and funder of Effective Altruism, a philosophical and political movement that told him he could 'earn-to-give.' Now, SBF and many in Effective Altruism have also embraced longtermism, a strand of extreme utilitarian thinking that tells us we should worry about the interests of future people -- trillions of future people, 1000s of years into the future, and in planets far away. We examine the complicated moral math of longtermism with Émile P. Torres, a former longtermist who is now one of the movement's sharpest apostates.
Released:
Nov 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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This is about ‘arts and letters,’ but for the kind of people who might hack a dart. We cover public intellectualism and the politics of academia from a left perspective. Each week, we interview thinkers about key debates that are relevant to the left. We discuss politics, culture, and intellectual history.