Blurring out all the fight-worthy details of the hypothetical, you’ve proposed something that saves people from wasting time (good), makes peoples’ beliefs closer to reality (good in itself, and good in that it’s likely to interact positively with unknown unknowns), but makes people unhappy (bad), and makes people live less long (bad).
Whether you should do this depends on how much time is saved, how much you value that time being saved, how much closer to reality, how much you value that closeness to reality, how much less happy, how much you value that happiness, how much less long, and how much you value the extra lifespans. These numbers cover pretty much the entirety of the question. And… different people have different values and thus will answer with different numbers, and I don’t think any sort of argument will resolve those disagreements.
By “good”, I mean it’s good according to my personal values and according to the sorts of values I think are most commonly found in other people. I’m not sure quite how it maps onto philosophical terminology, but I believe this is a fairly common way of navigating the is-ought distinction around here.
Blurring out all the fight-worthy details of the hypothetical, you’ve proposed something that saves people from wasting time (good), makes peoples’ beliefs closer to reality (good in itself, and good in that it’s likely to interact positively with unknown unknowns), but makes people unhappy (bad), and makes people live less long (bad).
Whether you should do this depends on how much time is saved, how much you value that time being saved, how much closer to reality, how much you value that closeness to reality, how much less happy, how much you value that happiness, how much less long, and how much you value the extra lifespans. These numbers cover pretty much the entirety of the question. And… different people have different values and thus will answer with different numbers, and I don’t think any sort of argument will resolve those disagreements.
Moral realism?
By “good”, I mean it’s good according to my personal values and according to the sorts of values I think are most commonly found in other people. I’m not sure quite how it maps onto philosophical terminology, but I believe this is a fairly common way of navigating the is-ought distinction around here.