I’ll add a note saying you provide a decision tool, but I don’t think you do what I suggest (obviously, you don’t have to do what I suggest and can think I’m wrong!).
I don’t think it’s correct to call 80k morally inclusive because you substantially pick a prefered outcome/theory and then provide the decision tool as a sort of after thought. By my lights, being morally inclusive is incompatible with picking a preferred theory. You might think moral exclusivity is, all things considered, the right move, but we should at least be a clear that’s the choice you’ve made. In the OP I suggest there were advantages to inclusivity over exclusivity and I’d be interested to hear if/why you disagree.
I’m also not sure if you disagree with me that the scale of suffering on the living from a X-risk disaster is probably quite small, and that the happiness lost to long-term conditions (mental health, chronic pains, ordinary human unhappiness) is of much larger scale than you’ve allowed. I’ve very happy to discuss this with you in person to hear what, if anything, would cause you to change your views on this. It would be a bit of a surprise if every moral view agreed X-risks were the most important thing, and it’s also a bit odd if you’ve left some of the biggest problems (by scale) off the list. I accept I haven’t made substantial arguments for all of these in writing, but I’m not sure what evidence you’d consider relevant.
I’ve also offered to help rejig the decision tool (perhaps subsequently to discussing it with you) and that offer still stands. On a personal level, I’d like the decision tool to tell me what I think the most important problems are and better reflection the philosophical decision process! You may decide this isn’t worth your time.
I’ll add a note saying you provide a decision tool, but I don’t think you do what I suggest (obviously, you don’t have to do what I suggest and can think I’m wrong!).
I don’t think it’s correct to call 80k morally inclusive because you substantially pick a prefered outcome/theory and then provide the decision tool as a sort of after thought. By my lights, being morally inclusive is incompatible with picking a preferred theory. You might think moral exclusivity is, all things considered, the right move, but we should at least be a clear that’s the choice you’ve made. In the OP I suggest there were advantages to inclusivity over exclusivity and I’d be interested to hear if/why you disagree.
I’m also not sure if you disagree with me that the scale of suffering on the living from a X-risk disaster is probably quite small, and that the happiness lost to long-term conditions (mental health, chronic pains, ordinary human unhappiness) is of much larger scale than you’ve allowed. I’ve very happy to discuss this with you in person to hear what, if anything, would cause you to change your views on this. It would be a bit of a surprise if every moral view agreed X-risks were the most important thing, and it’s also a bit odd if you’ve left some of the biggest problems (by scale) off the list. I accept I haven’t made substantial arguments for all of these in writing, but I’m not sure what evidence you’d consider relevant.
I’ve also offered to help rejig the decision tool (perhaps subsequently to discussing it with you) and that offer still stands. On a personal level, I’d like the decision tool to tell me what I think the most important problems are and better reflection the philosophical decision process! You may decide this isn’t worth your time.
Finally, I think my point about moral uncertainty still stands. If you think it is really important, it should probably feature somewhere. I can’t see a mention of it here: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problems/