Co-authored by Konrad Seifert and Nora Ammann
Cross-posted on the EA Forum
To bring about grand futures, we humans have to figure out how to reconcile our current needs with our lofty ambitions. Tight-knit support communities - what we call tribes in this post - seem to be a good way to preserve our well-being and values while achieving more impact. Yet, building effective tribes seems like a relatively neglected puzzle in the life plans of many people who wish to improve the world, or at least would benefit from more collective model-building and coordinated experimentation.
In this post, we outline our current models for modern-day tribe building. We hope to initiate an exchange on... (read 7021 more words →)
If it is raining, we will move to the Buvette of the Orangerie.
Self-alignment only works sustainably when your environment and you want Good. Often, people seem to want things that aren't Good. I think this is important to notice because you differ from many other people here: what you want is also what's Good and your environment incentivizes or at least tolerates this.
Aligning your wants with what the world needs is not self-alignment and seems like another important step to figure out.
From my limited view, it looks like getting what you want will eventually lead most people to want Good things? But it doesn't seem obvious at all.
I would repost this as a top-level comment for it to be able to gain visibility. Thanks for building this!
Not sure I understand the "reality has joints that can be cleaved"-thing but sounds like a possibly valuable framing.
Do you mean that reality can be broken down into different gears and one can find out how the gears interact?
Would an illustration of this be a look at how humans, on a biological level, could be described as "selfish-gene"-style driven and, possibly, on a mental level modeled as multi-agent minds?