An idea I’ve been kicking around in my head for a while is ‘someone should found an organization that investigates what existing humans’ moral priorities are’ - like, if there were a world democracy, what would it vote for?
An idea for a limited version of this within EA could be representatives for interest groups or nations. E.g., the Future Design movement suggests that in decision-making bodies, there should be some people whose role is to advocate for the interests of future generations. There could similarly be a mechanism where (eg) animals got a certain number of votes through human advocates.
GiveWell did some of this research in 2019 (summary, details):
We provided funding and guidance to IDinsight, a data analytics, research, and advisory organization, to survey about 2,000 people living in extreme poverty in Kenya and Ghana in 2019 about how they value different outcomes.
Yeah, I definitely agree with this!
An idea I’ve been kicking around in my head for a while is ‘someone should found an organization that investigates what existing humans’ moral priorities are’ - like, if there were a world democracy, what would it vote for?
An idea for a limited version of this within EA could be representatives for interest groups or nations. E.g., the Future Design movement suggests that in decision-making bodies, there should be some people whose role is to advocate for the interests of future generations. There could similarly be a mechanism where (eg) animals got a certain number of votes through human advocates.
GiveWell did some of this research in 2019 (summary, details):
Oh awesome! I’ll check that out.