Thanks! Upvoted because I agree that we should consider EI/​OI in population ethics, but disagree with the conclusion, which depends on the specifics of how you aggregate the pinpricks. Without going into too much detail, an analogy here is that if you have two soap bubbles and you bring them closer together until they touch, they can merge into a bigger bubble, possibly with emergent properties that go beyond those of the two individual bubbles. It’s a new kind of thing, well defined through topology, and having little to no resemblance to the two-separate-small-bubbles system.
Thanks! Upvoted because I agree that we should consider EI/​OI in population ethics, but disagree with the conclusion, which depends on the specifics of how you aggregate the pinpricks. Without going into too much detail, an analogy here is that if you have two soap bubbles and you bring them closer together until they touch, they can merge into a bigger bubble, possibly with emergent properties that go beyond those of the two individual bubbles. It’s a new kind of thing, well defined through topology, and having little to no resemblance to the two-separate-small-bubbles system.
Will publish more on this topic soon!