Sure, my point was just that ethics is sometimes downstream from epistemology: being obsessed with data/statistics will lead you to prioritize the goods and evils that you can most easily quantify (GDP, IQ, life expectancy, fertility rate, etc.).
But clearly there’s also an a priori path to bad utilitarianism. Replacing the bureaucratic s…
Sure, my point was just that ethics is sometimes downstream from epistemology: being obsessed with data/statistics will lead you to prioritize the goods and evils that you can most easily quantify (GDP, IQ, life expectancy, fertility rate, etc.).
But clearly there’s also an a priori path to bad utilitarianism. Replacing the bureaucratic state with a JSC that controls the army via blockchain… this is Bentham-level autism.
'Sure, my point was just that ethics is sometimes downstream from epistemology: being obsessed with data/statistics will lead you to prioritize the goods and evils that you can most easily quantify (GDP, IQ, life expectancy, fertility rate, etc.).'
True, but being breezily unconcerned with statistics also has its own dangers.
Sure, my point was just that ethics is sometimes downstream from epistemology: being obsessed with data/statistics will lead you to prioritize the goods and evils that you can most easily quantify (GDP, IQ, life expectancy, fertility rate, etc.).
But clearly there’s also an a priori path to bad utilitarianism. Replacing the bureaucratic state with a JSC that controls the army via blockchain… this is Bentham-level autism.
'Sure, my point was just that ethics is sometimes downstream from epistemology: being obsessed with data/statistics will lead you to prioritize the goods and evils that you can most easily quantify (GDP, IQ, life expectancy, fertility rate, etc.).'
True, but being breezily unconcerned with statistics also has its own dangers.