On 2024-02-10, will I personally find this idea about moral philosophy to be insightful?
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Here is the idea: that optimising decisionmaking individually and collectively is the same, and this is the moral philosophy that is needed to underly the age of collective human consciousness, extended mind, and the potential for agentic AIs, or, equivalently, self-improving AIs. It is expounded upon slightly here

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Timothy Morton, in one of his books on ecology, states that as an individual you need not feel guilty about driving your car, because your individual damage to the ecology is negligible compared to the collective damage.

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