You could for sure improve on the QALY as its done with 1-3 or 1-7 survey responses. V easy to improve on the DALY.
These measures are about benefits / quality of life in terms of individual welfare though. So they’d relate only to the ‘important’ bit of the heuristic. There are other things that are important, and key EA people have acknowledged and thought about that with, for example, the parliamentary model for resolving uncertainty in moral reasoning.
But is this really what Daren Acemoglu is getting at in terms of narrow focus? Not familiar with his criticism, but his work is all about the importance of market and political institutions—which is important—perhaps even all important in some lights—to human flourishing but very hard to relate to QALYs in the short-medium term or in terms of marginal funding (and nearly all funding is?)
You could for sure improve on the QALY as its done with 1-3 or 1-7 survey responses. V easy to improve on the DALY.
These measures are about benefits / quality of life in terms of individual welfare though. So they’d relate only to the ‘important’ bit of the heuristic. There are other things that are important, and key EA people have acknowledged and thought about that with, for example, the parliamentary model for resolving uncertainty in moral reasoning.
But is this really what Daren Acemoglu is getting at in terms of narrow focus? Not familiar with his criticism, but his work is all about the importance of market and political institutions—which is important—perhaps even all important in some lights—to human flourishing but very hard to relate to QALYs in the short-medium term or in terms of marginal funding (and nearly all funding is?)