I don’t think you should be so defensive in the face of accusations of promoting a bragging culture. Own it. If someone asked me “Isn’t it unethical to brag” I would tell them that, no, contrary, it’s positively ethical to brag.
The following is opinion, probably contains innacuracies, but would be important if true.
Bragging (well) about how good you are is a good norm.
If credibly signalling our goodness is normalized, there will emerge social pressures to do more goodness than we otherwise would have. If you normalize the right sort of bragging, it will creates a culture of philanthropic accountability. I sometimes wonder if the taboo against bragging might just be an artifact of abrahamic religion (if God is the final judge of the virtue of every man, there’s little need for us to judge each other, so to show high concern for the judgements of your fellow man is a sign of a lack of piety) + crab bucket mentality (I feel pissed off when the best man shows everyone how much better he is than me, I am a narcissist and cannot believe my being pissed off by that could reflect a character flaw on my part, it must be because he’s doing something genuinely bad, therefore we should agree that it’s unethical and forbid it.), I can’t see why we should need it any more. If you reign costly goodness signalling firmly under the earnest truthseeking norms of effective altruism, it could be the strongest thing we ever built. If you don’t think you can reign down these wild horses of Ra, then I would recommend that you don’t summon them.
So, I like the concept, perhaps for different reasons than your own, but I hope you’ll find my reasons convincing/refutable.
I don’t think you should be so defensive in the face of accusations of promoting a bragging culture. Own it. If someone asked me “Isn’t it unethical to brag” I would tell them that, no, contrary, it’s positively ethical to brag.
The following is opinion, probably contains innacuracies, but would be important if true.
Bragging (well) about how good you are is a good norm.
If credibly signalling our goodness is normalized, there will emerge social pressures to do more goodness than we otherwise would have. If you normalize the right sort of bragging, it will creates a culture of philanthropic accountability. I sometimes wonder if the taboo against bragging might just be an artifact of abrahamic religion (if God is the final judge of the virtue of every man, there’s little need for us to judge each other, so to show high concern for the judgements of your fellow man is a sign of a lack of piety) + crab bucket mentality (I feel pissed off when the best man shows everyone how much better he is than me, I am a narcissist and cannot believe my being pissed off by that could reflect a character flaw on my part, it must be because he’s doing something genuinely bad, therefore we should agree that it’s unethical and forbid it.), I can’t see why we should need it any more. If you reign costly goodness signalling firmly under the earnest truthseeking norms of effective altruism, it could be the strongest thing we ever built. If you don’t think you can reign down these wild horses of Ra, then I would recommend that you don’t summon them.
So, I like the concept, perhaps for different reasons than your own, but I hope you’ll find my reasons convincing/refutable.