Episode #930
Will MacAskill
Books mentioned
DMT
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:52:07
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Sapiens
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:25:29
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Animal Liberation
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:53:56
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Will MacAskill, a philosopher and effective altruism advocate, joins Joe Rogan to examine charitable giving, personal happiness, and the ethics of donating money. They also discuss AI, existential risk, simulation, humanity’s long-term future, animal welfare, factory farming, environmental impacts, and social and political issues.
What they talked about
- Effective altruism and donating most income
- Peter Singer's drowning child analogy
- Simulation argument and its plausibility
- Consciousness and the hard problem
- DMT and the nature of consciousness
- Human extinction risks and cosmic significance
- Factory farming and animal welfare
- Voting systems and political representation
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