I haven’t read WWOTF yet (my copy came yesterday) but I wanted to share a blog post I wrote which is of relevance to your “balance of positive and negative value in current lives” section.
I write about how we can figure out what the zero level of wellbeing is and hypothesise that this level is much “better” than we intuitively think.
I suspect I agree that Will MacAskill is currently overestimating the value of human lives given what I have heard about his analysis.
I haven’t read WWOTF yet (my copy came yesterday) but I wanted to share a blog post I wrote which is of relevance to your “balance of positive and negative value in current lives” section.
I write about how we can figure out what the zero level of wellbeing is and hypothesise that this level is much “better” than we intuitively think.
I suspect I agree that Will MacAskill is currently overestimating the value of human lives given what I have heard about his analysis.