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Amia Srinivasan · Stop the Robot Apocalypse: The New Utilitarians · LRB 23 September 2015

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Philosophers may talk about justice or rights, but they don’t often try to reshape the world according to their ideals...

Vol. 37 No. 18 · 24 September 2015 Stop the Robot Apocalypse Amia Srinivasan Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 4978 words Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill . Guardian Faber, 325 pp., £14.99, August 2015, 978 1 78335 049 0 Show More Show More P hilosophy, ​ Wittgenstein said, 'leaves everything as it is'. It sounds like a complaint, but actually it was a recommendation. Philosophy at its best, Wittgenstein thought, resists the scientific impulse to treat the world as a theoretical construct. It is

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