which is out of character for Harris because he spends a lot of time talking about ethics on his podcast and I can't recall him or his guests ever trying to support this claim, let alone just assume it's correct and we agree with it.
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I just don't understand why, besides a fit of Scientism, he thinks "learning everything about physics, etc." makes the human situation better. It just doesn't follow. Did nuclear weapons make our corner of the universe suck less?
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I'm no luddite and I don't mean to imply that some technological advancements haven't meaningfully improved living conditions (a lot) from a humanitarian perspective, He's just making far too general of a claim here though.
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I think it's earlier: https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/951276362387591169 … where he assumes "suck" is self-evident.
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I don't disagree with that premise. Burning your hand sucks on a pre-cultural level. It's self-evident insofar as we accept that we are self-evidently conscious animals with frail bodies and pain responses.
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BUT that is not a useful premise to derive ethics from because nobody would bother with an ethics that made such profound insights as "avoiding gratuitous bodily pain is good"
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