Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast

#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

July 8, 20201 hr 10 min

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Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, and happiness including in his books Ethics in the Real World and The Life You Can Save. He was a key popularizer of the effective altruism movement and is generally considered one of the most influent

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