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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.

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FWIW, the Berg and Wiseman book is good and worth reading.

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Is it worth reading enough to put it higher up on a very long list of books to read?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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