Suggestion for future edit. Insert the following after the Anton Chigur quote: "(I could end the essay right here, but then the essay would be too short.)" These philosophers seem like a bunch of navel gazers. I think your second and third footnotes are spot on.
Uh, listen a few podcasts that they are on, and see if it piques your interest. I thought it was most interesting as a window into the types of questions that are only going to become more and more common for the average person.
Here’s what I think about having kids: momentum+tradition>deliberation+stasis. Ethical considerations take a backseat to inertia. Then we end up with kids. There are statistically few exceptions, and they all work at universities.
I might write another post about the act of making ethical considerations, of trying to reason through a problem, can lead to bad reasoning or decisions. At least in this area.
You'll have to expound on your last sentence, if the NDA allows it.
Suggestion for future edit. Insert the following after the Anton Chigur quote: "(I could end the essay right here, but then the essay would be too short.)" These philosophers seem like a bunch of navel gazers. I think your second and third footnotes are spot on.
FWIW, the Berg and Wiseman book is good and worth reading.
Is it worth reading enough to put it higher up on a very long list of books to read?
Uh, listen a few podcasts that they are on, and see if it piques your interest. I thought it was most interesting as a window into the types of questions that are only going to become more and more common for the average person.
Here’s what I think about having kids: momentum+tradition>deliberation+stasis. Ethical considerations take a backseat to inertia. Then we end up with kids. There are statistically few exceptions, and they all work at universities.
I might write another post about the act of making ethical considerations, of trying to reason through a problem, can lead to bad reasoning or decisions. At least in this area.
You'll have to expound on your last sentence, if the NDA allows it.