Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a stranger, the effective altruism movement, and his sexuality. Was EA’s turn to ‘long-termist’ goals like preventing evil AI inevitable? Have they strayed too far from their Peter Singer/Jeremy Bentham inspired roots? And why won’t David and Tamler donate their kidneys?
Plus a new article in Nature Climate Change argues that neuroscience can help the environment – can I interest you in some virtual trees?
Stop the Robot Apocalypse by Amia Srinivasan [lrb.co.uk]
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| 0:00.0 | Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Vizarro, |
| 0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad |
| 0:14.5 | some very inappropriate jokes. You on the other hand well you're a pit of despair |
| 0:21.5 | you disgust me. |
| 0:23.6 | You disgust everyone. |
| 0:25.2 | The great and us is what is. |
| 0:32.1 | The great and us has spoken. Pay no attention to that man behind it hurts. |
| 0:37.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Who are you? A very bad man. I'm a very good man. Good man. |
| 0:50.3 | Man. |
| 0:52.3 | They think they're lost. Man. |
| 0:57.0 | They think deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. May no attention to that man. |
| 1:00.0 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:05.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:11.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:14.4 | Welcome to Very Bad Wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:18.0 | Dave, today we have a first-time guest, a guy who has been called the wokest man in America, but Vlad, I just have one question. |
| 1:28.0 | How do you pronounce your last name? |
| 1:30.0 | That is an excellent question. |
| 1:32.0 | So this has been actually a huge source of like existential angst for me. |
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