I think if you reject incomparability, youâre essentially assuming away complex cluelessness and deep uncertainty.
Thatâs really useful, thanks, at the very least I now feel like Iâm much closer to identifying where the different positions are coming from. I still think I reject incomparability; the example you gave didnât strike me as compelling, though I can imagine it compelling others.
So, while I might just pick an option if forced to choose between A, B and indifferent, it doesnât reveal a ranking, since youâve eliminated the option Iâd want to give, âI really donât knowâ. You could force me to choose among wrong answers to other questions, too.
I would say itâs reality thatâs doing the forcing. I have money to donate currently; I can choose to donate it to charity A, or B, or C, etc., or to not donate it. I am forced to choose and the decision has large stakes; âI donât knowâ is not an option (âwait and do more researchâ is, but that doesnât seem like it would help here). I am doing a particular job as opposed to all the other things I could be doing with that time; I have made a choice and for the rest of my life I will continue to be forced to choose what to do with my time. Etc.
It feels intuitively obvious to me that those many high-stakes forced choices can and should be compared in order to determine the all-things-considered best course of action, but itâs useful to know that this intuition is apparently not shared.
Thatâs really useful, thanks, at the very least I now feel like Iâm much closer to identifying where the different positions are coming from. I still think I reject incomparability; the example you gave didnât strike me as compelling, though I can imagine it compelling others.
I would say itâs reality thatâs doing the forcing. I have money to donate currently; I can choose to donate it to charity A, or B, or C, etc., or to not donate it. I am forced to choose and the decision has large stakes; âI donât knowâ is not an option (âwait and do more researchâ is, but that doesnât seem like it would help here). I am doing a particular job as opposed to all the other things I could be doing with that time; I have made a choice and for the rest of my life I will continue to be forced to choose what to do with my time. Etc.
It feels intuitively obvious to me that those many high-stakes forced choices can and should be compared in order to determine the all-things-considered best course of action, but itâs useful to know that this intuition is apparently not shared.