Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism & effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism & some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary & how it may affect animals & humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production & factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more.

In this Episode of Both/And

• Givewell
• David Pearce
• David Deutsch
• Twitter Questions
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Mind in Life by Evan Thompson
• The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
• Metzinger & Harris Podcast: The Nature of Consciousness
• Evan's Blog

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