The costs and benefits seem fairly analogous to those of “trolley problems,” which is well-travelledground at this point, so I won’t try to cover it again.
If you can see a benefit to trolley problems in general, it seems you ought to be able to see the same benefit here. Conversely, if you don’t, then it seems you should have the same objection to trolley problems involving death, torture, murder, and other bad practices.
Personally, I invoke Weber’s Law in these sorts of cases: when a posited delta is smaller than the just-noticeable-difference, I stop having faith in anyone’s intuitions about it, including my own. Anyone who wants to compel me with an argument in such a case needs to do more than appeal to my intuition.
The 3^^^3 bit makes it qualitatively different from any real-world lose-lose hypothetical. Remember that lose-lose hypotheticals are something that people in power, e.g. politicians, have to decide every day.
People in power have to decide about actual cases, which are always about expected utility, and in which knock-on effects must be considered. Most trolley problems have more in common with the DSvT scenario than with real-world cases.
But sure, when you add things like 3^^^3 people to a hypothetical, all normal intuitions go out the window.
The costs and benefits seem fairly analogous to those of “trolley problems,” which is well-travelled ground at this point, so I won’t try to cover it again.
If you can see a benefit to trolley problems in general, it seems you ought to be able to see the same benefit here. Conversely, if you don’t, then it seems you should have the same objection to trolley problems involving death, torture, murder, and other bad practices.
Personally, I invoke Weber’s Law in these sorts of cases: when a posited delta is smaller than the just-noticeable-difference, I stop having faith in anyone’s intuitions about it, including my own. Anyone who wants to compel me with an argument in such a case needs to do more than appeal to my intuition.
The 3^^^3 bit makes it qualitatively different from any real-world lose-lose hypothetical. Remember that lose-lose hypotheticals are something that people in power, e.g. politicians, have to decide every day.
People in power have to decide about actual cases, which are always about expected utility, and in which knock-on effects must be considered. Most trolley problems have more in common with the DSvT scenario than with real-world cases.
But sure, when you add things like 3^^^3 people to a hypothetical, all normal intuitions go out the window.