Executive summary: Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool allows users to evaluate philanthropic decisions under moral uncertainty by representing different worldviews as delegates in a parliament and using various allocation strategies to determine the best course of action.
Key points:
The tool has three components: Worldviews (representing moral theories), Projects (philanthropic ventures), and Allocation Strategies (for decision-making under uncertainty).
Worldviews are characterized by their normative importance placed on beneficiaries, population, effect type, value type, and risk attitude.
Projects are evaluated based on how they promote various determinants of moral value and their scale of impact.
Different metanormative methods (e.g., My Favorite Theory, Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness) can yield significantly different allocation recommendations.
When modeling the EA community, results vary greatly depending on the allocation strategy used, with some favoring global catastrophic risk causes and others recommending diversification.
Key empirical uncertainties about project impacts are at least as important as moral uncertainties in determining outcomes.
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Executive summary: Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool allows users to evaluate philanthropic decisions under moral uncertainty by representing different worldviews as delegates in a parliament and using various allocation strategies to determine the best course of action.
Key points:
The tool has three components: Worldviews (representing moral theories), Projects (philanthropic ventures), and Allocation Strategies (for decision-making under uncertainty).
Worldviews are characterized by their normative importance placed on beneficiaries, population, effect type, value type, and risk attitude.
Projects are evaluated based on how they promote various determinants of moral value and their scale of impact.
Different metanormative methods (e.g., My Favorite Theory, Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness) can yield significantly different allocation recommendations.
When modeling the EA community, results vary greatly depending on the allocation strategy used, with some favoring global catastrophic risk causes and others recommending diversification.
Key empirical uncertainties about project impacts are at least as important as moral uncertainties in determining outcomes.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.