Mar 04 2023 83 mins
My good friend Luca joins me to discuss the difference between what FEELS good and what IS good, a doughnut feels good but is not good(in the long term), our feelings fool us.
We talk about the trueness and fakeness of different feelings which is in the bullseye of effective altruism’s principal flaw: that what feels the best when doing good is not what has the biggest impact, zero sum vs positive sum games, Intelligence singularity, utilitarian ethics reduced to the absurd with the repugnant conclusion, that we have trade offs all the way down, the high cost of nationalism, that for me to be rational requires taking into account your irrationality, the scientific method, that applying selection at a lower level allows higher levels to not be killed, Goodhart's law, and that Ideas being selected for in our minds in a natural selection way makes us unable to get away of the naturalistic fallacy in some way.