"the following is a conversation with Peter Singer professor of bioethics at Bristol University best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation that makes an ethical case against eating meat he has writ..."

"may know I primarily eat a ketogenic or carnivore diet which means that most of my diet is made up of me I do not hunt the food I eat though one day I hope to I love fishing for example fishing and ea..."

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"Peter Singer you first become conscious of the fact that there is much suffering in the world I think I was conscious of the fact that there's a lot of suffering the world pretty much as as soon as I ..."

"Eric Weinstein he said everything is is great about war except all the death and suffering do you think there's something positive that they came from the war the the mirror that have put to our socie..."

"would you go about it suffering is a conscious state they can be neither suffering for a being who is completely unconscious and it's distinguished from other conscious states in terms of being one th..."

"there a relative aspect to suffering so we when you talk about eradicating poverty in the world is this the more you succeed the more the bar of what defines poverty raises or is there at the basic hu..."

"that's just not in your ethical philosophical brain is that of interest at all it would be of interest to me if we had eliminated all of the objective forms of suffering which I think of as generally ..."

"talking about human nature for a second do you think people are inherently good or do we all have good and evil in us that basically everyone is capable of evil based on the environment certainly most..."

"well sort of the reason I think it's interesting is in the world as you described you know when when there are things that you'd like to do they're good that are objectively good it's useful to think ..."

"so you know I'm not saying there were any terrible sanctions obviously but I thought about that and I guess I decided well I still think this is the right thing to do and if I'll put up with that if i..."

"on things that matter one of the essays asks should robots have rights you've written about this so let me ask sure robots have rights if we ever develop robots capable of consciousness capable of hav..."

"perspective so our idea what Cocteau of what suffering looks like comes from our just watching our selves when we're in pain sort of oh when we're experiencing pleasure it's not only a pleasure and pa..."

"do suffer that's a possibility that you know if we get used to looking at a being suffering and saying man we don't have to do anything about that that being doesn't have any rights maybe we'll feel t..."

"would say the same about your view so yes I'd just spoken with Noam Chomsky who basically was part of dismantling the behaviorist but and I'm with that 100% for studying human behavior but I am one of..."

"yourself against beings who are really suffering but there's this line you know so you said once a artificial general intelligence system a human level intelligence system become conscious I guess if ..."

"situation where you say I don't know how this is happening I the program does generate a kind of artificial general intelligence which is autonomous you know starts to do things itself and is autonomo..."

"where we do now start to return to behaviorism and say yeah that's that's there isn't an interesting issue I would say that if we have serious doubts and think it might be conscious then we ought to t..."

"to slap a mosquito that's about to bite you and stop you getting to sleep so I think you you try to achieve some balance in these circumstances of uncertainty if it's okay with you if we can go back j..."

"visibly animals we see ourselves as more important we see animals as existing to serve our needs in various ways and you can find this very explicit in earlier philosophers from Aristotle through the ..."

"that it happens as if it were a human maybe if I could ask I apologize hopefully it's not a ridiculous question but so as far as we know we cannot communicate with animals to a natural language but we..."

"you know your body having been destroyed and most people say I think I would you know if my brain was transplanted along with my memories and so on I would survive so we could ask Adi those kinds of q..."

"the hardware yeah but we're learning we're getting better at it and better and the idea I mean a lot of some people dream about one day being able to transfer certain aspects of the software to anothe..."

"we already have that by storing so much of our data online like pictures of different yes well Gmail is fantastic for that because you know people people email me as if they know me well yeah I haven'..."

"concerned about it and do you have give define that argument at all appealing in this domain or any domain that eventually this will be a problem so we should be worried about it yes I think it's a pr..."

"disagreement with some of these people who talk about long term risks extinction risks is only about how much priority that should have is compared to present questions no such it if you look at the m..."

"calculations arguably we shouldn't only one of the ethical assumptions that goes into this is that the loss of future lives that is of merely possible lives of beings who may never exist at all is in ..."

"awe-inspiring to think right when you think about the entirety of the span of time of the universe it's both interesting from a computer science perspective AI perspective and from an ethical perspect..."

"then you need to know how to balance these things off if you are just talking about well-being using that term to express happiness and the absence of suffering I think that the calculation becomes mo..."

"not exchange an hour of my most pleasurable experiences for an hour of my most painful experiences even I wouldn't have an hour of my most painful experiences even for two hours or ten hours of my mos..."

"if we could really could calculate that nobody do you think it's possible to converge towards an agreement amongst humans but towards an objective function is just a hopeless pursuit I don't think it'..."

"favoring themselves so I don't know if you know that's why as I say I don't know that we have a better system than democracy to make this decision well so you also discuss effective altruism which is ..."

"present in in the book the main thing I want to do in the book is to make people realize that it's not difficult to help people in extreme poverty that there are highly effective organizations now but..."

"effective altruism life there are many different kinds of ways of living as an effective altruists and if you're at the point where you're thinking about your long term career I'd recommend you take a..."

"about in terms of so that's like long-term $80,000 sure a shorter term giving part of well actually it's a part of that and go to Walker work at Wall Street if you would like to give a percentage of y..."

"and can know that they're doing something significant to play their part in reducing the huge gap between people in extreme poverty in the world and people living effluent lives and aside from it bein..."

"people in the effective altruism movement forming a community of other people with similar ideas and they tend to be interesting thoughtful and good people as well and having friends of that sort is a..."