How can we improve the future even if we don’t understand it, or if we have significant uncertainty about what’s important? In this lesson we’ll deal with interventions that improve society and its institutions more broadly, and will successfully contribute to society even under a wide variety of circumstances and moral views. Additionally, we’ll go over the requirements of the course’s final paper.
Further reading:
- Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
- Is Economic Growth a Moral Imperative?
- How important is economic growth? And can we do much about it?
- Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE)
- Design for Democracy: Ballot and Election Design
- Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook
- The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis: Drivers of Prediction Accuracy in World Politics
- Overprecision in Judgment
- Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts
- Structured Expert Judgement
- Delphi Method
- Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation,Thinking and Evaluation (CREATE)
- Making Conversations Smarter, Faster (MCSF)
- Evaluation Frameworks
Applied Ethics Course 