#305 — Moral Knowledge

Sam Harris speaks with Erik Hoel about the nature of moral truth.
They discuss the connection between consequentialism and
Effective Altruism, the problems with implementing academic moral
philosophy, bad arguments against consequentialism, the
implications of AI for our morality, the dangers of moral
certainty, whether all claims about good and evil are claims
about consequences, the problem of moral fanaticism, difficulty
in thinking about low-probability events, and other topics.


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