Historically, the problem seems to be that most Communist government initiatives to get people to be more altruistic result in them LARPing and not being more altruistic.
At the moment the Chinese government solution seems to be: “Give everybody social credit scores that measure how altruistic they are and hopefully that will get everyone to be more altruistic”.
I don’t get how larping altruism results in the norm that “if you’re helping, you’re guilty”. Unless people went out of their way to cause problems and act like saviors to seem altruistic? Which might be possible, but also sounds like it would be difficult to execute and isn’t the only way people could goodhart altruism metrics.
Historically, the problem seems to be that most Communist government initiatives to get people to be more altruistic result in them LARPing and not being more altruistic.
At the moment the Chinese government solution seems to be: “Give everybody social credit scores that measure how altruistic they are and hopefully that will get everyone to be more altruistic”.
I don’t get how larping altruism results in the norm that “if you’re helping, you’re guilty”. Unless people went out of their way to cause problems and act like saviors to seem altruistic? Which might be possible, but also sounds like it would be difficult to execute and isn’t the only way people could goodhart altruism metrics.
If most altruism is larping then for someone who does something altruistic, people who do altruistic things become suspect.
If I remember right there are cases where in former communist countries people who always vote cooperate on the ultimatum game get punished for it.
Communism isn’t the only factor here but I would expect that it’s one meaningful factor.