But I can’t do the wrong thing, by my standards of value, if my “value system no longer applies”. So that’s part of what I’m trying to tease out.
Another part is: I’m not sure if Wei thinks this is just a governance problem (i.e. we’re going to put people in charge who do the wrong thing, despite some people advocating caution) or a more fundamental problem that nobody would do the right thing.
If the former, then I’d characterise this more as “more power magnifies leadership problems”. But maybe it won’t, because there’s also a much larger space of morally acceptable things you can do. It just doesn’t seem that easy to me to accidentally do a moral catastrophe if you’ve got a huge amount of power, and less so an irreversible one. But maybe this is just because I don’t know of whatever possible examples Wei thinks about.
But I can’t do the wrong thing, by my standards of value, if my “value system no longer applies”. So that’s part of what I’m trying to tease out.
Another part is: I’m not sure if Wei thinks this is just a governance problem (i.e. we’re going to put people in charge who do the wrong thing, despite some people advocating caution) or a more fundamental problem that nobody would do the right thing.
If the former, then I’d characterise this more as “more power magnifies leadership problems”. But maybe it won’t, because there’s also a much larger space of morally acceptable things you can do. It just doesn’t seem that easy to me to accidentally do a moral catastrophe if you’ve got a huge amount of power, and less so an irreversible one. But maybe this is just because I don’t know of whatever possible examples Wei thinks about.