This post has been pretty foundational for several ongoing conversations on LessWrong in the past couple months. I’ve personally found it relevant when thinking about how to make sense of the world generally, as well as whether/how to scale organizations that I’m involved in.
Zvi notes in the OP:
Reading and actually paying attention to Moral Mazes is hard. Writing carefully about it is even harder. I effectively spent several months forcing my way through the book, because it seemed important to do that. I then spent a month trying to write about the book, but that’s going super slow as well. The repetition, the saying the same thing from multiple angles, the detailed examples, seem necessary to get the points across, because one has the very strong instinct to avoid understanding it, to read without seeing, to hear without listening. At least, I know I did, despite these things also not only not feeling new, but resonating with my direct experiences.
So in the interest of getting something out there, and hoping that I’ll be able to address things in more detail later, here are all the 168 (!) quotes I highlighted from the book, roughly organized into categories. Locations listed are how to find the quote in the Kindle edition, and the quotes are numbered for ease of search and reference.
Which makes sense. There’s a lot going on in this post. I think some later posts (by Zvi and others) have done a better job of distilling this into more bite sized chunks that are easier to think about. But it still seems useful to have this high level abridging as a foundation for that.
For potential areas of improvement here, I think it’s possible the quotes here could have been trimmed done more and/or annotated, but it seems fine for that part of the process to come later.
Curated.
This post has been pretty foundational for several ongoing conversations on LessWrong in the past couple months. I’ve personally found it relevant when thinking about how to make sense of the world generally, as well as whether/how to scale organizations that I’m involved in.
Zvi notes in the OP:
Which makes sense. There’s a lot going on in this post. I think some later posts (by Zvi and others) have done a better job of distilling this into more bite sized chunks that are easier to think about. But it still seems useful to have this high level abridging as a foundation for that.
For potential areas of improvement here, I think it’s possible the quotes here could have been trimmed done more and/or annotated, but it seems fine for that part of the process to come later.