Moral progress is often about creating a positive-sum framing out of a previously zero-sum game.

· Bits and Bobs 12/16/24
  • Moral progress is often about creating a positive-sum framing out of a previously zero-sum game.
    • Kicking the competition into a new dimension, where instead of tug of war, the competition creates something new and different and better.
    • When you switch from zero-sum to positive-sum, it's an infinite, magical difference.
    • Switching into that mode is extremely hard to do, and requires the stars to align, a kind of alchemy, the world being in just the right place to be ready for it.