I think that both moral uncertainty and non-moral epistemic uncertainty (if you’ll allow the distinction) both suggest we should assign some weight to what people say is valuable.
Only ~7% of all people who ever lived are currently alive. What’s the justification for focusing on humans living in 2022? Is it just that figuring out the values of past generations is less tractable?
It seems plausible that we should assign weight to what past generations valued (though one would likely not use survey methodology to do this), as well as what future generations will value, insofar as that is knowable.
Only ~7% of all people who ever lived are currently alive. What’s the justification for focusing on humans living in 2022? Is it just that figuring out the values of past generations is less tractable?
It seems plausible that we should assign weight to what past generations valued (though one would likely not use survey methodology to do this), as well as what future generations will value, insofar as that is knowable.