For some of the examples, it seems unclear to me how they differ from just reacting quickly generally. In other words, what makes these examples of ‘ethical’ reactions and not just ‘technical’ reactions?
^ Yeah, I can certainly come up with examples where you need to react quickly, it’s just that I couldn’t come up with any where you had to make decisions based on ethics quickly. I think I misunderstood the post as “You should practice thinking about ethics and ethical conundrums so that when these come up in real life you’ll be able to solve them quickly”, whereas it sounds like the post is actually “You should consider optimizing around the ability to generally react faster as this leads to good outcomes overall, including for anything altruistic that you do”. Am I understanding this correctly?
The reason it is appropriate to call this ethical reaction time, rather than just reaction time is because the focus of planning and optimization is around ethics and future goals. To react quickly with respect to an opportunity that is hard to notice, you have to be looking for it.
Technical reaction time is a better name in some ways, but it implies too narrow of a focus, while just reaction time implies too wide of a focus. There probably is a better name though.
For some of the examples, it seems unclear to me how they differ from just reacting quickly generally. In other words, what makes these examples of ‘ethical’ reactions and not just ‘technical’ reactions?
^ Yeah, I can certainly come up with examples where you need to react quickly, it’s just that I couldn’t come up with any where you had to make decisions based on ethics quickly. I think I misunderstood the post as “You should practice thinking about ethics and ethical conundrums so that when these come up in real life you’ll be able to solve them quickly”, whereas it sounds like the post is actually “You should consider optimizing around the ability to generally react faster as this leads to good outcomes overall, including for anything altruistic that you do”. Am I understanding this correctly?
That is the point.
The reason it is appropriate to call this ethical reaction time, rather than just reaction time is because the focus of planning and optimization is around ethics and future goals. To react quickly with respect to an opportunity that is hard to notice, you have to be looking for it.
Technical reaction time is a better name in some ways, but it implies too narrow of a focus, while just reaction time implies too wide of a focus. There probably is a better name though.