Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Peter Singer recently appeared as a guest on the 80,000 Hours podcast. Singer is promoting the updated 10th Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, which is available for download as a free e-book or audiobook. On the podcast, Singer discusses issues including:

• What does he think are the most plausible alternatives to consequentialism?
• Is it more humane to eat wild caught animals than farmed animals?
• The re-release of The Life You Can Save
• Whether it’s good to polarize people in favour and against your views
• His active opposition to the Vietnam war and conscription
• Should we make it easier for people to express unpopular opinions?
• His most and least strategic career decisions
• What does he think are the effective altruism community’s biggest mistakes?
• Population ethics and arguments for and against prioritising the long-term future
• What led to his changing his mind on significant questions in moral philosophy?
• What is at the heart of making moral mistakes?
• What should we do when we are morally uncertain?
• And more.