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Peter Singer
Moral Philosopher
Peter Singer appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, biology, philosophy. Lex describes Peter Singer as moral philosopher.
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2020
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Lex Fridman Podcast / July 8, 2020 / Episode #107
Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
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 influential philosophers in the world.
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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 influential philosophers in the world.
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Peter Singer
Moral Philosopher
Peter Singer appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, biology, philosophy. Lex describes Peter Singer as moral philosopher.
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July 8, 2020 to July 8, 2020
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