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Bloom has been critical of empathy as a foundation for altruism. What are some better psychological hacks we can use to feel more gut-level concern for future generations, and to reduce existential risks?
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I’d have thought harnessing virtue signalling would have been one right up your aisle,
@primalpoly. I’m always impressed by how much things like the Ice Bucket challenge can raise when people get to flaunt their virtue to a wide audience. Ends justify means On that for me. -
Seeing this makes me interested in your view. Do you think we see virtue before we feel empathy? Which comes first, how are they related?
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Racism.
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Great Q
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Fearmongering is currently being tried. Not a fan. Empathy cant be replaced, w/o it, there is no gut level concern.
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Suffering is humanity’s cosmological psychological hack, which turns out to not be psychological, but relational. Otherwise we are prone to rescuing or persecuting bahaviors, masks for pride.
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Maybe part of the solution will be us growing up, meaning that we regularly go beyond gut-level empathy, and instead manage to show compassion even to those who least deserve it.
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We're not getting away from being apes which aren't designed to think very far into the future. The old ball and chain.
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