History of 20 Sources of Moral Authority

Though three weeks ago I outlined a story of the long-term history of changes to moral authority, I decided to study this in a bit more detail. So I collected this list of 20 candidate sources of moral authority: Activist/interest group, Hereditary elite, Artist/musician/storyteller, Business-leader/employer, Famous, Civic-frat/clubs/assoc, Doctor/therapist, Family/elder, Peer/Community, Govt leader/org, Heart/Conscience, Law, Market prices, News/Media, Public intellectual, Priest/Church/Sacredtxt, Scholar/scientist, School/teacher, Tradition, Warrior/Military. Then I asked three LLMs to rate the strength of each source (wrt max 100) in each of the six time periods between the dates 5KBC, 1AD, 1400, 1750, 1910, 2000, 2026. Here are their medians, with peaks highlighted in red, and sorted to show the time progression:Notice some patterns. The ancient and modern eras were pretty different, and each of these eras can be split into early and late versions, which have mildly different…