If it gets people away from cultish movements with morally questionable ideologies, value drift is a good thing.
If you’re a collage kid who drinks the KoolAid and then outgrows it over time, all the more power to that future self.
Grounding your spending in your own wellbeing has high information value; the purchasing power allocated to your own preferences gives tangible feedback inside your own brain—you know what brings you utility and what doesn’t. You know what purchases you like and which ones you dislike.
Compare this with giving money to strangers who merely promise to make the world a better place based on lots of highly questionable empirical assumptions and even more questionable moral axioms. Surely you can see the difference in information value.
Frankly I am shocked that there are people who give 50% of their income away to Effective Altruism; the social dynamics and moral uncertainties surrounding the Effective Altruism movements don’t even remotely justify such a speculative investment.
Value drift is not necessarily a bad thing.
If it gets people away from cultish movements with morally questionable ideologies, value drift is a good thing.
If you’re a collage kid who drinks the KoolAid and then outgrows it over time, all the more power to that future self.
Grounding your spending in your own wellbeing has high information value; the purchasing power allocated to your own preferences gives tangible feedback inside your own brain—you know what brings you utility and what doesn’t. You know what purchases you like and which ones you dislike.
Compare this with giving money to strangers who merely promise to make the world a better place based on lots of highly questionable empirical assumptions and even more questionable moral axioms. Surely you can see the difference in information value.
Frankly I am shocked that there are people who give 50% of their income away to Effective Altruism; the social dynamics and moral uncertainties surrounding the Effective Altruism movements don’t even remotely justify such a speculative investment.