Week 4 · Leave room to learn what matters

What if our idea of a good future is wrong?

People can endorse a future that other moral views regard as deeply mistaken. Viatopia describes a society on a promising path, with room to learn and change course.

Keeping every option open has costs. Delay can preserve injustice, and moral diversity can create coordination problems as well as opportunities for learning.

Who is missing from your picture of a good future? What could make your preferred safeguard harmful?

Sketch an endorsed but morally mistaken future, its error, lock-in mechanism, warning sign and a safeguard.

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