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Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“I think we should, in some way, try to reason to make the world a better place even if it involves strangling some cats.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- belief
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Do you feel you should try to train yourself out of being unwilling to strangle the cat, or you’re going to double down on how you are? I double down on a few things. My utilitarian friends tell me that my affection and the resources I put into my children are irrational, that I should not be favoring them over strangers, certainly not to the extent I do. I hold back on that. If you offered me a pill that would get rid of my favoring my children, I would not take it. For animals and treatment of animals and cat strangling, I think we should try to talk ourselves out of this. I think we should, in some way, try to reason to make the world a better place even if it involves strangling some cats. I have some questions about intelligence for you. If we think of large language models, should we let them feel disgust so that they avoid left-wing bias?…
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