I think the word “inspirational” isn’t ideal either, and in fact not very different from “inspiring”. And I think the title matters massively for the interpretation of an article. So I think you haven’t appropriately addressed David’s legitimate point. I wouldn’t use “inspiring”, “inspirational”, or similar words.
I agree that “inspirational” is still not optimal because of its positive connotation, but I think it is fair to say that stecas was trying to improve it and that the update successfully removed the possibility of understanding the title as a call to action (old title was something like “Cause Prioritization by Inspiring Disasters”, where “Inspiring” was meant as an adjective, but could be understood as a gerund).
Some ideas:
“A model of how preventing enduring catastrophes could backfire”
“Would a Utilitarian go back in time and prevent a cautionary catastrophe?”
“Cause Prioritizaion in light of cautionary disasters”
I think the word “inspirational” isn’t ideal either, and in fact not very different from “inspiring”. And I think the title matters massively for the interpretation of an article. So I think you haven’t appropriately addressed David’s legitimate point. I wouldn’t use “inspiring”, “inspirational”, or similar words.
I agree that “inspirational” is still not optimal because of its positive connotation, but I think it is fair to say that stecas was trying to improve it and that the update successfully removed the possibility of understanding the title as a call to action (old title was something like “Cause Prioritization by Inspiring Disasters”, where “Inspiring” was meant as an adjective, but could be understood as a gerund).
Some ideas:
“A model of how preventing enduring catastrophes could backfire”
“Would a Utilitarian go back in time and prevent a cautionary catastrophe?”
“Cause Prioritizaion in light of cautionary disasters”