I have recently been thinking about the exact same thing, down to getting anthropologists to look into it! My thoughts on this were that interviewing anthropologists who have done fieldwork in different places is probably the more functional version of the idea. I have tried reading fairly random ethnographies to built better intuitions in this area, but did not find it as helpful as I was hoping, since they rarely discuss moral worldviews in as much detail as needed.
My current moral views seem to be something close to “reflected” preference utilitarianism, but now that I think this is my view, I find it quite hard to figure out what this actually means in practice.
My impression is that most EAs don’t have a very preference utilitarian view and prefer to advocate for their own moral views. You may want to look at my most recent post on my shortform on this topic.
If you would like to set up a call sometime to discuss further, please PM!
I have recently been thinking about the exact same thing, down to getting anthropologists to look into it! My thoughts on this were that interviewing anthropologists who have done fieldwork in different places is probably the more functional version of the idea. I have tried reading fairly random ethnographies to built better intuitions in this area, but did not find it as helpful as I was hoping, since they rarely discuss moral worldviews in as much detail as needed.
My current moral views seem to be something close to “reflected” preference utilitarianism, but now that I think this is my view, I find it quite hard to figure out what this actually means in practice.
My impression is that most EAs don’t have a very preference utilitarian view and prefer to advocate for their own moral views. You may want to look at my most recent post on my shortform on this topic.
If you would like to set up a call sometime to discuss further, please PM!