In the second of a four-part series on empathy — which will be a recurring theme throughout the podcast — we take a look at how to systematize if not empathy, a moral code. We also talk about the trolley problem, the drowning child, and killing baby Hitler.

Links: • Against Empathy by Paul Bloom • The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen • Andrew Yang • Steven Kotler on Duncan Trussell's podcast • Peter Diamandis • Kroger makes grocery deliveries in autonomous vehicles • Peter Singer's drowning child • Stephen King's 11/22/63 • Trolley problem variations • Vox on the time travel problems with killing baby Hitler: • Tesla driver dies when car misses tractor trailer • Self-driving Uber kills a pedestrian • Simon Baron-Cohen's Empathy Quotient exam • JoshShear.com: Systematizing empathy

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