So you mean try to do slightly less of what can get you blamed than average? What policy goal does slightly outperforming at an incoherent standard achieve?
Try coming up with a charitable interpretation of what I said. I feel like the various posts I linked showcase why I think there failure modes to naively doing the thing you’re saying, not to mention the next two bullet points.
I don’t actually understand how to be “more charitable” or “less charitable” here—I’m trying to make sense of what you’re saying, and don’t see any point in making up a different but similar-sounding opinion which I approve of.
If I try to back out what motives lead to tracking the average level of morality (as opposed to trying to do decision theory on specific cases), it ends up to be about managing how much you blame yourself for things (i.e. trying to “be” “good”); I actually don’t see how thinking about global outcomes would get you there.
If you have a different motivation that led you there, you’re in a better position to explain it than I am.
So you mean try to do slightly less of what can get you blamed than average? What policy goal does slightly outperforming at an incoherent standard achieve?
Try coming up with a charitable interpretation of what I said. I feel like the various posts I linked showcase why I think there failure modes to naively doing the thing you’re saying, not to mention the next two bullet points.
I don’t actually understand how to be “more charitable” or “less charitable” here—I’m trying to make sense of what you’re saying, and don’t see any point in making up a different but similar-sounding opinion which I approve of.
If I try to back out what motives lead to tracking the average level of morality (as opposed to trying to do decision theory on specific cases), it ends up to be about managing how much you blame yourself for things (i.e. trying to “be” “good”); I actually don’t see how thinking about global outcomes would get you there.
If you have a different motivation that led you there, you’re in a better position to explain it than I am.