Episode · EconTalk · 2024-04-22
Russ Roberts & Paul Bloom: books mentioned on EconTalk (Apr 2024)
Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)
Would an AI simulation of your dead loved one be a blessing or an abomination? And if you knew that after your own death, your loved ones would create a simulation of you, how would that knowledge change the way you choose to live today?
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Plugged Wild Problems
“and, you know, we had a conversation a long time ago, which got into my book, ended up in my book Wild Problems, about whether it's better to be a a philosopher or pig, whether it's better to live the life examined, the examined life of the philosopher, or to be cavorting, and enjoying a physical life.”