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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
“You could imagine an LLM program for that, but I think when we encountered the LLM, we’d find it repellent.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think there are any humans who are what I would call truly egalitarian? There are plenty of people who genuinely want to redistribute wealth, but typically, I think they have other status markers. It could be intellect, it could be empathy, it could be a certain kind of left-wing politics. Are there people who are genuinely egalitarian across all dimensions? No. I think you’d cease to become a person. To become indifferent between the present and the future, indifferent between your child and a stranger, to not care about somebody’s looks or intelligence or kindness would be . . . You could imagine an LLM program for that, but I think when we encountered the LLM, we’d find it repellent. The person would disgust us?…
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