The cases Scott talks about are individuals clamoring for symbolic action in social reality in the aid of individuals that they want to signal they care about. It’s quite Hansonian, because the whole point is that these people are already dead and none of these interventions do anything but take away resources from other patients. They don’t ask ‘what would cause people I love to die less often’ at all, which my model says is because that question doesn’t even parse to them.
The cases Scott talks about are individuals clamoring for symbolic action in social reality in the aid of individuals that they want to signal they care about. It’s quite Hansonian, because the whole point is that these people are already dead and none of these interventions do anything but take away resources from other patients. They don’t ask ‘what would cause people I love to die less often’ at all, which my model says is because that question doesn’t even parse to them.