Ansh Arora
What I read this week #4

What I read this week #4

Published on: 2024-07-28

Science can answer moral questions



Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science.
But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.



The Singer Solution To World Poverty


The Australian philosopher Peter Singer is perhaps the world's most controversial ethicist.
Singer offers some unconventional thoughts about the ordinary American's obligations to the world's poor.



The accidental tyranny of user interfaces


The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention.