You doubt that it would work very well if Alice nags everyone to be more altruistic. I’m curious how confident you are that this doesn’t work and whether you’d propose any better techniques that might work better?
For myself, I notice that being nagged to be more altruistic is unpleasant and uncomfortable. So I might be biased to conclude that it doesn’t work, because I’m motivated to believe it doesn’t work so that I can conveniently conclude that nobody should nag me; so I want to be very careful and explicit in how I reason and consider evidence here. (If it does work, that doesn’t mean it’s good; you could think it works but the harms outweigh the benefits. But you’d have to be willing to say “this works but I’m still not okay with it” rather than “conveniently, the unpleasant thing is ineffective anyway, so we don’t have to do it!”)
(PS. yes, I too am very glad that people like Bob exist, and I think it’s good they exist!)
You doubt that it would work very well if Alice nags everyone to be more altruistic. I’m curious how confident you are that this doesn’t work and whether you’d propose any better techniques that might work better?
For myself, I notice that being nagged to be more altruistic is unpleasant and uncomfortable. So I might be biased to conclude that it doesn’t work, because I’m motivated to believe it doesn’t work so that I can conveniently conclude that nobody should nag me; so I want to be very careful and explicit in how I reason and consider evidence here. (If it does work, that doesn’t mean it’s good; you could think it works but the harms outweigh the benefits. But you’d have to be willing to say “this works but I’m still not okay with it” rather than “conveniently, the unpleasant thing is ineffective anyway, so we don’t have to do it!”)
(PS. yes, I too am very glad that people like Bob exist, and I think it’s good they exist!)