I still think you’re focussing too much on changed values as opposed to implementation difficulties (I consider lack of motivation an example of those).
With short and long term versions of both and with it being pretty likely that “value change” would lead to “action change” over time
I think it’s actually usually the other way around—action change comes first, and then value change is a result of that. This also seems to be true for your hypothetical Alice in your comment above. AFAIK it’s a known psychology result that people don’t really base their actions on their values, but instead derive their values from their actions.
All in all, I consider the ability to have a high impact EA-wise much more related to someone’s environment than to someone’s ‘true self with the right values’.
I would therefore frame the focus on how to get people to have a high impact somewhat differently: How can we set up supportive environments so people are able to execute the necessary actions for having a high impact?
And not how can we lock in people so they don’t change their values—though the actual answers to those questions might not be that different.
I still think you’re focussing too much on changed values as opposed to implementation difficulties (I consider lack of motivation an example of those).
I think it’s actually usually the other way around—action change comes first, and then value change is a result of that. This also seems to be true for your hypothetical Alice in your comment above. AFAIK it’s a known psychology result that people don’t really base their actions on their values, but instead derive their values from their actions.
All in all, I consider the ability to have a high impact EA-wise much more related to someone’s environment than to someone’s ‘true self with the right values’. I would therefore frame the focus on how to get people to have a high impact somewhat differently: How can we set up supportive environments so people are able to execute the necessary actions for having a high impact?
And not how can we lock in people so they don’t change their values—though the actual answers to those questions might not be that different.