{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#29 Reducing Suffering with Evan Sandhoefner","description":"Jared Janes&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Jason&amp;nbsp;Snyder&amp;nbsp;talk with Evan Sandhoefner about what led him to utilitarianism &amp;amp; effective altruism, the flexibility of utilitarianism &amp;amp; some critiques, pluralistic virtue ethics, whether suffering is necessary &amp;amp; how it may affect animals &amp;amp; humans differently, whether we should remove wild predators to prevent animal suffering, creating unintentional animal suffering, consciousness, ethical meat production &amp;amp; factory farming, localism, universal explainers vs computers, intelligence, and more. In&amp;nbsp;this Episode of&amp;nbsp;Both\/And  Givewell David Pearce David Deutsch Twitter Questions The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch Mind in Life by Evan Thompson The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger Metzinger &amp;amp; Harris Podcast: The Nature of Consciousness Evan's Blog  Support Both\/And by&amp;nbsp;becoming a patron&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;\/or&amp;nbsp;subscribing &amp;amp; reviewing us on iTunes &amp;nbsp; Jared Janes participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, a small percentage of its price is sent to us. ","author_name":"Both\/And","author_url":"http:\/\/www.bothand.info","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12757679\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/12757679"}