In my words, what you’ve done is point out that approximate-consequentialism + large-scale preferences is an attractor.
I think that this is a fair summary of my first point (it also needs enough truth seeking to realise that spreading the approach is valuable). It doesn’t really speak to the point about being self-correcting/improving.
I’m not trying to claim that it’s obviously the strongest memeplex in the long term. I’m saying that it has some particular strengths (which make me more optimistic than before I was aware of those strengths).
I think another part of my thinking there is that actually quite a lot of people have altruistic preferences already, so it’s not like trying to get buy-in for a totally arbitrary goal.
I think that this is a fair summary of my first point (it also needs enough truth seeking to realise that spreading the approach is valuable). It doesn’t really speak to the point about being self-correcting/improving.
I’m not trying to claim that it’s obviously the strongest memeplex in the long term. I’m saying that it has some particular strengths (which make me more optimistic than before I was aware of those strengths).
I think another part of my thinking there is that actually quite a lot of people have altruistic preferences already, so it’s not like trying to get buy-in for a totally arbitrary goal.