So, yes, in addition to my own story I have more thoughts about what kind of story I want for people in general, roughly along these lines:
And he said – no, absolutely, stay in your career right now. In fact, his philosophy was that you should do exactly what you feel like all the time, and not worry about altruism at all, because eventually you’ll work through your own problems, and figure yourself out, and then you’ll just naturally become an effective altruist.
Or not, and that would also be fine.
I have strong intuitions about a thing which I’ll roughly label “not skipping developmental stages.” I think there is something like a developmental stage at which thinking about altruism is natural and won’t slowly corrupt your soul, and I worry about something like people not knowing what stage they’re at, not being at this stage, and trying to pretend to themselves and others that they are. The problem is roughly, I think most people are trying to do EA at Kegan 3, which is subject to tons of Goodharting / signaling issues, and it seems like a bad idea to me to seriously try to do EA until Kegan 4 or 5.
So, yes, in addition to my own story I have more thoughts about what kind of story I want for people in general, roughly along these lines:
Or not, and that would also be fine.
I have strong intuitions about a thing which I’ll roughly label “not skipping developmental stages.” I think there is something like a developmental stage at which thinking about altruism is natural and won’t slowly corrupt your soul, and I worry about something like people not knowing what stage they’re at, not being at this stage, and trying to pretend to themselves and others that they are. The problem is roughly, I think most people are trying to do EA at Kegan 3, which is subject to tons of Goodharting / signaling issues, and it seems like a bad idea to me to seriously try to do EA until Kegan 4 or 5.