I think they complement each other,[1] with yours emphasising the guidance of the ‘moral peak’, and mine warning against going too straight and ignoring the ground underneath you giving way.
I think there is an underlying point that cluelessness wins over global consequentialism, which is pratically unworkable, and that solid moral heuristics are a more effective way of doing good in a world with complex cluelessness.
Not to self-promote too much but I see a lot of similarities here with my earlier post, Gradient Descent as an analogy for Doing Good :)
I think they complement each other,[1] with yours emphasising the guidance of the ‘moral peak’, and mine warning against going too straight and ignoring the ground underneath you giving way.
I think there is an underlying point that cluelessness wins over global consequentialism, which is pratically unworkable, and that solid moral heuristics are a more effective way of doing good in a world with complex cluelessness.
Though you flipped the geometry for the more intuitive ‘reaching a peak’ rather than the ML-traditional ‘descending a valley’