I intentionally stayed meta because I didn’t especially want to start an argument about EA premises. Concretely, my disagreements with EA are, that I don’t believe in any of:
Moral realism
Radical impartiality
Utilitarianism
Longtermism
I view improving the world as an enterprise of collective rationality / cooperation, not a moral imperative (I don’t believe in moral imperatives). I care much more about the people (and other creatures) closer to me in the social graph, but I also want to cooperate with other people for mutual gain, and in particular endorse/promote social norms that create incentives beneficial for most of everyone (e.g. reward people for helping others / improving the world).
Why I changed some of my views in this particular direction is a long story, but it involved a lot of reflection and thinking about my preferences on different levels of abstraction (from “how do I feel about such-and-such particular situation” to “what could an abstract mathematical formalization of my preferences look like”).
I intentionally stayed meta because I didn’t especially want to start an argument about EA premises. Concretely, my disagreements with EA are, that I don’t believe in any of:
Moral realism
Radical impartiality
Utilitarianism
Longtermism
I view improving the world as an enterprise of collective rationality / cooperation, not a moral imperative (I don’t believe in moral imperatives). I care much more about the people (and other creatures) closer to me in the social graph, but I also want to cooperate with other people for mutual gain, and in particular endorse/promote social norms that create incentives beneficial for most of everyone (e.g. reward people for helping others / improving the world).
Why I changed some of my views in this particular direction is a long story, but it involved a lot of reflection and thinking about my preferences on different levels of abstraction (from “how do I feel about such-and-such particular situation” to “what could an abstract mathematical formalization of my preferences look like”).