Treat creation, suppression, and shaping of moral movements as an outcome to be engineered by large organizations using measurable metrics, funding, and coordinated communications. This reframes activism from spontaneous civic activity to a governable, marketable service that institutions (including for‑profit firms) can be paid to deliver or block.
— If taken seriously, this idea would force debates about who should have delegated power to shape public morality, the ethics of paid moral influence, and how democratic institutions respond to commodified norm engineering.
Robin Hanson
2026.04.05
100% relevant
"pay big orgs to create, suppress, and influence such movements to achieve key metrics" — Hanson’s explicit proposal to enlist organizations to manage youth movements.
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