Why isn’t there a version of EA that explicitly talks about how to leverage people’s status motivations to do more good for the world? It’s very possible that explicit talk about status is actually counterproductive at least in the short run, e.g. it heightens status motivations and makes people less altruistic, but then do we just march into the future while blindfolding ourselves to this aspect of human nature?
Wait, what? As far as I understood it, that was explicitly a main consideration in the 10% pledge Schelling point, though it’s possible that I may have just came up with that argument myself and misattributed it.
Wait, what? As far as I understood it, that was explicitly a main consideration in the 10% pledge Schelling point, though it’s possible that I may have just came up with that argument myself and misattributed it.