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Who decides how we’ll save the future?

Explain It to Me

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Is There One Source of Value?

Le's say you have three buckets in which you think moral value might lie. One might be long termist, one might be near termists, o present human suffering mitigating that one. Then you might also have, like, wwe want to care about animals, no, just humans, right? Ok, right. So on. He lake withere's many sources of value. Maybe they're incommensurable. You can't do an apple stapple's comparison and so you can't naively apply expected value across all of them. That's ok. It's messy. Better to actually just recognize that than to try to mathematize our way out of this.

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