I found this post very interesting. Here are some pros and cons I’ve noted down on your factors, scores, and metric criteria scores:
Pros
Clearly enumerated strengths and weaknesses according to desiderata
Compatible with expressing uncertainty (e.g., via ranges)
Simple and single-axis
Potentially also compatible with rating human welfare
Cons
Leans towards promoting “ease of measurement”, which might miss important but hard-to-measure things
Likely to be sensitive to weightings which are not very robustly grounded
Unclear how to account for indirect and long-term effects
Largely incompatible with rating welfare of artificial beings
(I stumbled onto this post 4 years after its publication while exploring the literature adjacent to The Moral Weight Project Sequence.)
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I found this post very interesting. Here are some pros and cons I’ve noted down on your factors, scores, and metric criteria scores:
Pros
Clearly enumerated strengths and weaknesses according to desiderata
Compatible with expressing uncertainty (e.g., via ranges)
Simple and single-axis
Potentially also compatible with rating human welfare
Cons
Leans towards promoting “ease of measurement”, which might miss important but hard-to-measure things
Likely to be sensitive to weightings which are not very robustly grounded
Unclear how to account for indirect and long-term effects
Largely incompatible with rating welfare of artificial beings
(I stumbled onto this post 4 years after its publication while exploring the literature adjacent to The Moral Weight Project Sequence.)