Given its gravity, I find this question underexplored and current tools (QALYs, WELLBYs, YLSSs etc.) either underdeveloped or inadequate. At the same time I think answers should fit into existing frameworks when possible, since these tools often form a cornerstone, or are heavily implied, when doing cause prioritisation.
There are at least two things I would like to know more about:
When does the transition from positive to negative lives happen? What characterizes this shift? Some of the above tools have a defined neutral point, but in practice, evaluations around it are somewhat distorted.
How far in the negative is it possible to be compared to the positive?
I think it should be possible to at least get some empirical anchors tied to commonly used frameworks, preferably more than one.
(And I have some ideas for how to do so, but it doesn’t seem like there are many funding opportunities, so I’d probably want $500 000 for myself to pursue them, or maybe just $50 000 to do some small tests)
This is interesting to me as well. It seems like more of a philosophical question to me, but I have not given it though consideration to say. If you don’t mind sharing, how would empirical anchors inform this?
“What does ‘negative lives’ really look like?”
Given its gravity, I find this question underexplored and current tools (QALYs, WELLBYs, YLSSs etc.) either underdeveloped or inadequate. At the same time I think answers should fit into existing frameworks when possible, since these tools often form a cornerstone, or are heavily implied, when doing cause prioritisation.
There are at least two things I would like to know more about:
When does the transition from positive to negative lives happen? What characterizes this shift? Some of the above tools have a defined neutral point, but in practice, evaluations around it are somewhat distorted.
How far in the negative is it possible to be compared to the positive?
I think it should be possible to at least get some empirical anchors tied to commonly used frameworks, preferably more than one.
(And I have some ideas for how to do so, but it doesn’t seem like there are many funding opportunities, so I’d probably want $500 000 for myself to pursue them, or maybe just $50 000 to do some small tests)
This is interesting to me as well. It seems like more of a philosophical question to me, but I have not given it though consideration to say. If you don’t mind sharing, how would empirical anchors inform this?