Nice post. Can I suggest you’re missing the most obvious one from your test?
How about “making people happier”?
which you could rephrase as
“reducing suffering/connecting people/empowering people to life the lives they want.”
I’m one of those (controversial?) people who thinks most economic and technological development is morally neutral and does surprisingly little to make people’s lives better, largely because people adapt to it and doesn’t make a difference over the long run. I’m actually planning to make this argument in a longer post soon as I also think it’s something of a neglected issue.
“reducing suffering/connecting people/empowering people to life the lives they want.”
Are you saying that’s probably an example of positive differential progress, or that because it’s good in the immediate term, it should be good overall?
To me development of category “reducing suffering/connecting” is the most interesting and meaningful as a seed from which everything optimally (effectively) grows. I wish to see at least 1 out of 100 intellectuals to ask question about hierarchy of life purpose and meaning, and then what makes their life effective relatively to life purpose.
Nice post. Can I suggest you’re missing the most obvious one from your test?
How about “making people happier”?
which you could rephrase as
“reducing suffering/connecting people/empowering people to life the lives they want.”
I’m one of those (controversial?) people who thinks most economic and technological development is morally neutral and does surprisingly little to make people’s lives better, largely because people adapt to it and doesn’t make a difference over the long run. I’m actually planning to make this argument in a longer post soon as I also think it’s something of a neglected issue.
“reducing suffering/connecting people/empowering people to life the lives they want.”
Are you saying that’s probably an example of positive differential progress, or that because it’s good in the immediate term, it should be good overall?
If the former could you flesh out the reason?
To me development of category “reducing suffering/connecting” is the most interesting and meaningful as a seed from which everything optimally (effectively) grows. I wish to see at least 1 out of 100 intellectuals to ask question about hierarchy of life purpose and meaning, and then what makes their life effective relatively to life purpose.