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All-Things-Considered Assessment of World Breaks Scales

It is extremely hard to form an all-things-considered assessment of whether the present world is good, because weighing the wonderful things (children's smiles, beauty) against the suffering (cancer wards, factory-farmed pigs, mundane tedium of dead-end jobs) causes the evaluative scales to essentially break.

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Speaker

Nicholas Bostrom

Evidence Quote

you put on the other side of the scale, the people in the cancer wards and the pigs in the animal factories, and just mundane stuff like the headaches and the tedium at the dead-end job

Source

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:04:44 AM

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