Adding on to what Michael said (and disagreeing a bit): when it comes to what people prioritize, I think this post might implicitly underrate the importance of disagreeing beliefs about the reality of the world relative to the importance of moral disagreements. (I think Carl Shulman makes a related point in this podcast and possibly elsewhere.) In particular, I think a good number of people see empirical beliefs as some of their key cruxes for working on what they do (e.g.), and others might disagree with those beliefs.
Potentially a more minor point: I also think people use some terminology in this space in different ways, which might cause additional confusion. For instance, you define “worldview research” as “Research into what or who matters most in the world,” and write “Disagreements here are mostly based on moral intuitions, and quite hard to resolve” (in the chart). This usage is fairly common (e.g.). But in other places, “worldview” might be used to describe empirical reality (e.g.).
Thanks for the post!
Adding on to what Michael said (and disagreeing a bit): when it comes to what people prioritize, I think this post might implicitly underrate the importance of disagreeing beliefs about the reality of the world relative to the importance of moral disagreements. (I think Carl Shulman makes a related point in this podcast and possibly elsewhere.) In particular, I think a good number of people see empirical beliefs as some of their key cruxes for working on what they do (e.g.), and others might disagree with those beliefs.
Potentially a more minor point: I also think people use some terminology in this space in different ways, which might cause additional confusion. For instance, you define “worldview research” as “Research into what or who matters most in the world,” and write “Disagreements here are mostly based on moral intuitions, and quite hard to resolve” (in the chart). This usage is fairly common (e.g.). But in other places, “worldview” might be used to describe empirical reality (e.g.).