Thanks for sharing these points. For people interested in this topic, I’d also recommend Tarsney’s full thesis, or dipping into relevant chapters of it. (I only read about a quarter of it myself and am not an expert in the area, but it seemed quite interesting and like it was probably making quite substantive contributions.)
Also on infectiousness, I thought I’d note that MacAskill himself provides what he calls a “a solution to the infectious incomparability problem”. He does this in his thesis, rather than the paper he published a year earlier and which Lukas referenced in this post. (I can’t actually remember the details of this proposed solution, but it was at the end of Chapter 5, for anyone interested.)
Thanks for sharing these points. For people interested in this topic, I’d also recommend Tarsney’s full thesis, or dipping into relevant chapters of it. (I only read about a quarter of it myself and am not an expert in the area, but it seemed quite interesting and like it was probably making quite substantive contributions.)
Also on infectiousness, I thought I’d note that MacAskill himself provides what he calls a “a solution to the infectious incomparability problem”. He does this in his thesis, rather than the paper he published a year earlier and which Lukas referenced in this post. (I can’t actually remember the details of this proposed solution, but it was at the end of Chapter 5, for anyone interested.)