Do you think there are changes to the current world that would be “aligned”? (E.g. deleting covid) Then we could end up with a world that is better than our current one, even without needing all humans to agree on what’s best.
Another option: why not just do everything at once? Have some people living in a diverse Galactic civilization, other people spreading the word of god, and other people living in harmony with nature, and everyone contributing a little to everyone else’s goals? Yes, in principle people can have different values such that this future sounds terrible to everyone—but in reality it seems more like people would prefer this to our current world, but might merely feel like they were missing out relative to their own vision of perfection.
Do you think there are changes to the current world that would be “aligned”? (E.g. deleting covid) Then we could end up with a world that is better than our current one, even without needing all humans to agree on what’s best.
Another option: why not just do everything at once? Have some people living in a diverse Galactic civilization, other people spreading the word of god, and other people living in harmony with nature, and everyone contributing a little to everyone else’s goals? Yes, in principle people can have different values such that this future sounds terrible to everyone—but in reality it seems more like people would prefer this to our current world, but might merely feel like they were missing out relative to their own vision of perfection.