I haven’t gone through this whole post, but I generally like what I have seen.
I do want to advertise a recent paper I published on infinite ethics, suggesting that there are useful aggregative rules that can’t be represented by an overall numerical value, and yet take into account both the quantity of persons experiencing some good or bad and the probability of such outcomes: https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/article-abstract/121/3/299/6367834
The resulting value scale is only a partial ordering, but I think it gets intuitive cases right, and is at least provably consistent, even if not complete. (I suspect that for infinite situations, we can’t get completeness in any interesting way without using the Axiom of Choice, and I think anything that needs the Axiom of Choice can’t give us any reason for why it rather than some alternative is the right one.)
I haven’t gone through this whole post, but I generally like what I have seen.
I do want to advertise a recent paper I published on infinite ethics, suggesting that there are useful aggregative rules that can’t be represented by an overall numerical value, and yet take into account both the quantity of persons experiencing some good or bad and the probability of such outcomes: https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/article-abstract/121/3/299/6367834
The resulting value scale is only a partial ordering, but I think it gets intuitive cases right, and is at least provably consistent, even if not complete. (I suspect that for infinite situations, we can’t get completeness in any interesting way without using the Axiom of Choice, and I think anything that needs the Axiom of Choice can’t give us any reason for why it rather than some alternative is the right one.)