Has anybody written up a primer on “what if utility is lexically ordered, or otherwise not quite measurable in real numbers”? Especially in regard to dust specks?
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but Toby Ord has written a criticism of several forms of negative utilitarianism, including what he calls Lexical Threshold NU (which he attributes to David Pearce), which sounds like what you might be thinking of.
Has anybody written up a primer on “what if utility is lexically ordered, or otherwise not quite measurable in real numbers”? Especially in regard to dust specks?
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but Toby Ord has written a criticism of several forms of negative utilitarianism, including what he calls Lexical Threshold NU (which he attributes to David Pearce), which sounds like what you might be thinking of.