This problem[1] was one I independently noticed before finding EA.
I think in some ways the actions implied under it are similar: focusing on long-term world-change so that the world is eventually organized by morality.
If ‘how do you deal with it’ means ‘how do you make your actions compatible with this view’, my answer is that I’m trying to help with {figuring out how we can make powerful AIs also be benevolent}.[2]
If ‘how do you deal with it’ means ‘how do you convince yourself it is false, or that things some EA orgs are contributing to are still okay given it’, I don’t think this is a useful attitude to have towards troubling truths.
I agree with this:
It feels like EAs who value animal suffering at all must provide very clear reasons why its okay to support saving the lives of meat-eaters and also developing the third-world given the “meat eater problem.”
If ‘how do you deal with it’ means ‘how do you convince yourself it is false, or that things some EA orgs are contributing to are still okay given it’, I don’t think this is a useful attitude to have towards troubling truths.
This problem[1] was one I independently noticed before finding EA.
I think in some ways the actions implied under it are similar: focusing on long-term world-change so that the world is eventually organized by morality.
If ‘how do you deal with it’ means ‘how do you make your actions compatible with this view’, my answer is that I’m trying to help with {figuring out how we can make powerful AIs also be benevolent}.[2]
If ‘how do you deal with it’ means ‘how do you convince yourself it is false, or that things some EA orgs are contributing to are still okay given it’, I don’t think this is a useful attitude to have towards troubling truths.
I agree with this:
Many current human lives causing extreme suffering by funding factory farming, enough to outweigh the positive value of their own life
A nice fiction about coming into existence in a world with normalized moral catastrophe, and acting heroically: the sword of good by Yudkowsky
Well said and important :)