While I’ve focused on death here, I think this is actually much more general—there are a lot of irreversible decisions that people make (and that artificial agents might make) between potentially incommensurable choices. Here’s a nice example from Elizabeth Anderson’s “Value in Ethics & Economics” (Ch. 3, P57 re: the question of how one should live one’s life, to which I think irreversibility applies
Similar incommensurability applies, I think, to what kind of society we collectively we want to live in, given that path dependency makes many choices irreversible.
While I’ve focused on death here, I think this is actually much more general—there are a lot of irreversible decisions that people make (and that artificial agents might make) between potentially incommensurable choices. Here’s a nice example from Elizabeth Anderson’s “Value in Ethics & Economics” (Ch. 3, P57 re: the question of how one should live one’s life, to which I think irreversibility applies
Similar incommensurability applies, I think, to what kind of society we collectively we want to live in, given that path dependency makes many choices irreversible.