“Spreading ideas for raising the hedonic treadmill of human populations” seems like part of the Hedonistic Imperative, as espoused by David Pearce.
If so, it seems to me like its an idea leaning towards transhumanism that doesn’t seem tractable in the present, with the requisite technology to achieve such goals coming at some unknown future point (at best), and with lots of people unable to grasp how where we start researching or advocating for such an abstract cause.
I personally have sympathy for its sentiment, but this is just my hypothesis for the conclusion skeptical effective altruists reach.
“Spreading ideas for raising the hedonic treadmill of human populations” seems like part of the Hedonistic Imperative, as espoused by David Pearce.
If so, it seems to me like its an idea leaning towards transhumanism that doesn’t seem tractable in the present, with the requisite technology to achieve such goals coming at some unknown future point (at best), and with lots of people unable to grasp how where we start researching or advocating for such an abstract cause.
I personally have sympathy for its sentiment, but this is just my hypothesis for the conclusion skeptical effective altruists reach.