My answer to why people have mostly been able to cooperate despite inconsistent beliefs is that most people have low impact, ala power laws. This means that most intuitions agree with each other.
It’s in the high-end technological regime where vast differences between people’s morals start mattering. To put it in Scott Alexander’s terms, it’s the difference between: “Mediocristan is like the route from Balboa Park to West Oakland, where it doesn’t matter what line you’re on because they’re all going to the same place. Then suddenly you enter Extremistan, where if you took the Red Line you’ll end up in Richmond, and if you took the Green Line you’ll end up in Warm Springs, on totally opposite sides of the map.”
Or to put it another way, most people don’t have major power in life, but that will become a big problem as technology advances.
My answer to why people have mostly been able to cooperate despite inconsistent beliefs is that most people have low impact, ala power laws. This means that most intuitions agree with each other.
It’s in the high-end technological regime where vast differences between people’s morals start mattering. To put it in Scott Alexander’s terms, it’s the difference between: “Mediocristan is like the route from Balboa Park to West Oakland, where it doesn’t matter what line you’re on because they’re all going to the same place. Then suddenly you enter Extremistan, where if you took the Red Line you’ll end up in Richmond, and if you took the Green Line you’ll end up in Warm Springs, on totally opposite sides of the map.”
Or to put it another way, most people don’t have major power in life, but that will become a big problem as technology advances.