Hi Jack, thanks for writing this. I read this post when it was published a few months ago, so I may not remember everything written in this post.
I have another related proposal: moral science (~ ethics) education for primary and middle school students. Moral science is often taught to students till 8th grade (atleast it was taught in my school). So, moral science education in schools is already tractable.
I would classify this under broadly promoting positive moral values. The current set of moral values are far from ideal, and EAs could have an impact by changing the curriculum used in moral science education in primary and middle school. In particular some moral values like concern for animals, consequentialism, caring for future generations, cosmopolitanism and liberalism seem particularly neglected and important (source: 33:33 of this video by Will MacASkill).
One of the biggest reasons to work on “broadly promoting positive moral values” would be that it isn’t very tractable to influence society’s moral values (the other being that it might be undesirable). But, as I’ve argued above, this intervention seems somewhat tractable.
For an idea of what 8th grade moral science looks like see this, this and this.
Hi Jack, thanks for writing this. I read this post when it was published a few months ago, so I may not remember everything written in this post.
I have another related proposal: moral science (~ ethics) education for primary and middle school students. Moral science is often taught to students till 8th grade (atleast it was taught in my school). So, moral science education in schools is already tractable.
I would classify this under broadly promoting positive moral values. The current set of moral values are far from ideal, and EAs could have an impact by changing the curriculum used in moral science education in primary and middle school. In particular some moral values like concern for animals, consequentialism, caring for future generations, cosmopolitanism and liberalism seem particularly neglected and important (source: 33:33 of this video by Will MacASkill).
One of the biggest reasons to work on “broadly promoting positive moral values” would be that it isn’t very tractable to influence society’s moral values (the other being that it might be undesirable). But, as I’ve argued above, this intervention seems somewhat tractable.
For an idea of what 8th grade moral science looks like see this, this and this.