Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

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Peter Singer recently appeared as a guest on the 80,000 Hours podcast. Singer is promoting the updated 10th Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, which is available for download as a free e-book or audiobook. On the podcast, Singer discusses issues including:

  • What does he think are the most plausible alternatives to consequentialism?

  • Is it more humane to eat wild caught animals than farmed animals?

  • The re-release of The Life You Can Save

  • Whether it’s good to polarize people in favour and against your views

  • His active opposition to the Vietnam war and conscription

  • Should we make it easier for people to express unpopular opinions?

  • His most and least strategic career decisions

  • What does he think are the effective altruism community’s biggest mistakes?

  • Population ethics and arguments for and against prioritising the long-term future

  • What led to his changing his mind on significant questions in moral philosophy?

  • What is at the heart of making moral mistakes?

  • What should we do when we are morally uncertain?

  • And more.