This is great! I myself started doing the Trial Pledge this year and then the 10% Pledge a few months later! I wonder, though, how one could achieve a wholesale reorientation in ordinary people's thinking about ethics/morality might be needed here: a shift away from ethics as merely a negative project of <not doing stuff> or doing the ba…
This is great! I myself started doing the Trial Pledge this year and then the 10% Pledge a few months later! I wonder, though, how one could achieve a wholesale reorientation in ordinary people's thinking about ethics/morality might be needed here: a shift away from ethics as merely a negative project of <not doing stuff> or doing the bare minimum of moral decency towards a positive project of <positively doing good stuff> and doing more and more of what one has more (weightier) moral reasons to do, without it being too maximising and demanding/exhausting. Perhaps memes or a really good movie or TV show might be needed to gradually influence people's conception of morality for the better over time! 🤔
This is great! I myself started doing the Trial Pledge this year and then the 10% Pledge a few months later! I wonder, though, how one could achieve a wholesale reorientation in ordinary people's thinking about ethics/morality might be needed here: a shift away from ethics as merely a negative project of <not doing stuff> or doing the bare minimum of moral decency towards a positive project of <positively doing good stuff> and doing more and more of what one has more (weightier) moral reasons to do, without it being too maximising and demanding/exhausting. Perhaps memes or a really good movie or TV show might be needed to gradually influence people's conception of morality for the better over time! 🤔
Congrats! And yeah, I think the distinction between "reactive vs goal-directed ethics" is really important: https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/reactive-vs-goal-directed-ethics
EA needs more marketers / cultural influencers to figure out how to better popularize the most important ideas :-)