Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
The legendary Peter Singer joins us to talk about effective altruism, AI, animal welfare, esoteric morality, future Tuesday indifference, and more. I mean, it's Peter freakin' Singer - what more do we need to say? Plus, the explosive 'one or two spaces after a period' debate: has science resolved it?
Special Guest: Peter Singer.
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Links:
- Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick's Practical Typography
- Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary [thanks to listener Kevin Litman-Navarro]
- Peter Singer - Wikipedia
- de Lazari-Radek, K., & Singer, P. (2017). Utilitarianism: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
- Singer, P. (2010). The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty. Random House Incorporated.
- "A Gadfly for the Greater Good" (Tamler's interview of Singer in his "A Very Bad Wizard" book)
- "A Very Bad Wizard" by Tamler Sommers [amazon affiliate link]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm a right-handed Sagittarius. I love Chinese food. |
| 0:20.7 | I've never seen the Pacific caution, and I think that the Big Lebowski's over at us. |
| 0:30.0 | My mom has spoken. |
| 0:32.0 | I know our attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:42.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm a very bad man. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:50.0 | Good man. |
| 0:52.0 | They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:56.8 | They know our attention. |
| 0:58.8 | Come on, man. |
| 1:00.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:08.0 | They're a very good man. |
| 1:10.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston, Dave, |
| 1:18.0 | today in the second segment, the great Peter Singer is going to finally be on the podcast. |
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