That article has a good reference list but these are mostly of historical interest . I do reccomend reading the article and looking at the references . (it might take 80,000 hours to read them all in full so i do not reccomend that—just read the abstracts , and if you want look at the intros, conclusions, scan main text—especially equations----one can say in 1 equation more than in 1000 words, but the equation has 1000 words behind it, and references. )
Michael Taylor’s 1976 book ‘the possibility of cooperation’ discussed this theme, but he used a sort of outmoded game theoretic approach which has been mostly replaced by a different formalism (which derives from physics and theoretical and evolutionary biology—behavioral economics and Rawlsian utilitarianism or other variants doesn’t come close to that formalism.)
The conclusion to the article does come to the correct conclusion. EA movement could easily just do the greatest good for the smallest number. In ancient europe the educated and better off classes barricaded themselves into forts, castles and mansions. There was the bubonic plague. But this in the long term in a sense saved many others in the future—created the ‘enlightenment’.
I think with current modern knowledge that approach is unnecesary. i cannot wholeheartedly reccomend this group because they also have limited view of cooperation but they do have more currrent thought in this area. www.santafe.edu or https://www.santafe.edu
That article has a good reference list but these are mostly of historical interest . I do reccomend reading the article and looking at the references . (it might take 80,000 hours to read them all in full so i do not reccomend that—just read the abstracts , and if you want look at the intros, conclusions, scan main text—especially equations----one can say in 1 equation more than in 1000 words, but the equation has 1000 words behind it, and references. )
Michael Taylor’s 1976 book ‘the possibility of cooperation’ discussed this theme, but he used a sort of outmoded game theoretic approach which has been mostly replaced by a different formalism (which derives from physics and theoretical and evolutionary biology—behavioral economics and Rawlsian utilitarianism or other variants doesn’t come close to that formalism.)
The conclusion to the article does come to the correct conclusion. EA movement could easily just do the greatest good for the smallest number. In ancient europe the educated and better off classes barricaded themselves into forts, castles and mansions. There was the bubonic plague. But this in the long term in a sense saved many others in the future—created the ‘enlightenment’.
I think with current modern knowledge that approach is unnecesary. i cannot wholeheartedly reccomend this group because they also have limited view of cooperation but they do have more currrent thought in this area. www.santafe.edu or https://www.santafe.edu