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The Stochastic Dominance Based Argument for the Collective Defeat Argument
There's going to be a tension between what it seems is mandated by pure benevolence and what a difference making risk of us agent might choose. If we didn't have uncertainty in the picture, it would be obvious what it would mean for preferences to track betterness. We're trying to do X anti-evaluation of prospects rather than evaluation of outcomes directly. However, sometimes it's the case that one option stochastically dominates another. When that happens at least it makes sense to say that the first option is better from the point of view of the goodness of outcomes.