Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'.
As examples, he gives:
* Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws (in 1754 BCE) and his justification of his rule not in terms of divine or hereditary right, but by the delivery of justice to his citizens.
* St Gregory of Nyssa's...
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
This personal post is not part of the competition, as my intent is not to produce an original constructive response to cluelessness. However, Toby Tremlett encouraged me to share it insofar as it contributes to this week's conversation.
TL; DR: I work in animal welfare and am clueless....
TLDR: We should spread idea's to people taking a dump through a Page a Day calendar.
We should make a PAGE A DAY CALENDAR where people will get 365 pages of EA content (through stories, vegan recipes and cartoons), where they can tear off one page daily. It's low-cost, low-key (if it includes cartoons), easy to use as a small present and it might suit a great public.
Inspired by this vid, from the timestamp until 15:00 (rest is worthwhile too though) https://youtu.be/Eqcdb8kpujI?t=11m50s
Sounds like something @Hamish Doodles could do (if they were interested / thought this was sufficiently worthwhile)
I'm not not interested in this idea.
I think the hard part would be coming up with ideas and writing copy for the calendar. Illustrations are time consuming but straightforward (and fun), and there are probably plug-and-play services for manufacture and distribution.
One project I'm working on is compressing EA-related material into tweet form (eg), and a curated selection of these could form the backbone of the copy.
I've made a note in my calendar on September 1 next year to revisit this idea and see if I've got enough raw material for put something together for 2024.
If someone else wants to participate (writing, ideas, illustrations, or even accountability check-ins), DM me or leave a comment and this'll be much more likely to happen.