One of these poll items is not like the others. The answer to the career question varies depending on the individual whose career is under consideration. ETA: even given some kind of non-relativistic moral realism.
By my values, that criticism applies to most everything in the list.
Optimal, by whose values? Why should anyone assume that their values dictate what “we should do”? These questions are unsolved because they haven’t been formulated in a way that makes sense. Provide the context of an actual Valuer to these questions of value, and you might make some progress toward answers.
To answer one question according to my values, the biggest problem we face is death.
You’re right. I paid lots of attention to filling in options and not enough to the wording of the questions I was copying. There are multiple interpretations of this question, so I changed it (with 9 votes entered so far, 2-0-1-0-3-3) to “What career choice do you most strongly endorse, when you can’t be person- or skill-specific?” Also interesting would have been “What is the optimal career choice for you”, but this seemed like changing the spirit of the question too much.
You can discount my “Other” answer then. My “other” answer was “Huh? Optimal for what? Getting laid? Saving the planet? Maximising life satisfaction?” (This supplements that “For Who?” that Carl Mentions.)
One of these poll items is not like the others. The answer to the career question varies depending on the individual whose career is under consideration. ETA: even given some kind of non-relativistic moral realism.
By my values, that criticism applies to most everything in the list.
Optimal, by whose values? Why should anyone assume that their values dictate what “we should do”? These questions are unsolved because they haven’t been formulated in a way that makes sense. Provide the context of an actual Valuer to these questions of value, and you might make some progress toward answers.
To answer one question according to my values, the biggest problem we face is death.
You’re right. I paid lots of attention to filling in options and not enough to the wording of the questions I was copying. There are multiple interpretations of this question, so I changed it (with 9 votes entered so far, 2-0-1-0-3-3) to “What career choice do you most strongly endorse, when you can’t be person- or skill-specific?” Also interesting would have been “What is the optimal career choice for you”, but this seemed like changing the spirit of the question too much.
You can discount my “Other” answer then. My “other” answer was “Huh? Optimal for what? Getting laid? Saving the planet? Maximising life satisfaction?” (This supplements that “For Who?” that Carl Mentions.)