- The universe doesn’t optimize for morality. The moral arc of the universe doesn’t bend toward justice unless we bend it.
- Even ‘good’ people don’t necessarily optimize for morality, unless they are primed by their environment to look at things through a moral lens. We tend to optimize for whatever we’re focused on. That’s not usually morality — often it’s survival, or something we have been told is equivalent to survival (such as money, miliary dominance, or the relative power of our ethnic or political group).
- Nevertheless, improving the world (and encouraging…
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