Therefore, we ought to prioritize interventions that improve the wisdom, capability, and coordination of future actors.
If we operate under the “ethical precautionary principle” you laid out in the previous post (always behave as if there was another crucial consideration yet to discover), how do we do this? We might think that some intervention will increase the wisdom of future actors, based on our best analysis of the situation. But we fear a lurking crucial consideration that will someday pounce and reveal that actually the intervention did nothing, or did the opposite.
In other words, don’t we need to be *somewhat* clueful already in order to bootstrap our way into more cluefulness?
If we operate under the “ethical precautionary principle” you laid out in the previous post (always behave as if there was another crucial consideration yet to discover), how do we do this? We might think that some intervention will increase the wisdom of future actors, based on our best analysis of the situation. But we fear a lurking crucial consideration that will someday pounce and reveal that actually the intervention did nothing, or did the opposite.
In other words, don’t we need to be *somewhat* clueful already in order to bootstrap our way into more cluefulness?