Can you provide a pointer or summary to how ANU doesn’t require commensurability of values? How does one evaluate reduction in suffering of many small-experience/short-lived creatures at the expense of increased suffering of a deeper-experiencing/longer-lived creature?
Also, how does ANU (or any system trying to minimize it’s only metric) deal with population-size issues? Should Thanos snap his fingers a lot more often (removing suffering by removing entities, painlessly and by surprise)?
I’ll admit that neither of these are my true objection. My felt experience and strong intuition is that suffering can coexist with joy and satisfaction, and one should not sacrifice much of the latter in order to reduce the former.
Can you provide a pointer or summary to how ANU doesn’t require commensurability of values? How does one evaluate reduction in suffering of many small-experience/short-lived creatures at the expense of increased suffering of a deeper-experiencing/longer-lived creature?
Also, how does ANU (or any system trying to minimize it’s only metric) deal with population-size issues? Should Thanos snap his fingers a lot more often (removing suffering by removing entities, painlessly and by surprise)?
I’ll admit that neither of these are my true objection. My felt experience and strong intuition is that suffering can coexist with joy and satisfaction, and one should not sacrifice much of the latter in order to reduce the former.