Great question! Since I’m not a professional ethicist, I can’t say: I don’t follow this stuff closely enough. But if you want a concrete falsifiable claim from me, I proposed this to a commenter on the EA forum:
I claim that one’s level of engagement with the LW/EA rationalist community can weakly predict the degree to which one adopts a maximizer’s mindset when confronted with moral/normative scenarios in life, the degree to which one suffers cognitive dissonance in such scenarios, and the degree to which one expresses positive affective attachment to one’s decision (or the object at the center of their decision) in such scenarios.
More specifically I predict that, above a certain threshold of engagement with the community, increased engagement with the LW/EA community correlates with an increase in the maximizer’s mindset, increase in cognitive dissonance, and decrease in positive affective attachment in the aforementioned scenarios.
The hypothesis for why I think this correlation exists is mostly here and here.
Out of curiosity, what scandals over the past year have been a surprise to virtue ethicists?
Great question! Since I’m not a professional ethicist, I can’t say: I don’t follow this stuff closely enough. But if you want a concrete falsifiable claim from me, I proposed this to a commenter on the EA forum:
The hypothesis for why I think this correlation exists is mostly here and here.