Dunno if it's too productive to fret over the appropriateness of computational-tools. I mean, when it comes to stuff like mass-surveillance, we can debate the

Dunno if it's too productive to fret over the appropriateness of computational-tools. I mean, when it comes to stuff like mass-surveillance, we can debate the merits of having such a mass-surveillance infrastructure. But when it comes to simple calculatory tools, they're basically just thoughts -- thoughts that people can have even without AI, and presumably'll become increasingly well-developed over time. Forward-facing ethical-frameworks should probably discount perceived scarcity of computation. This is, if we're talking ethics, presumably we ought to consider things under a presumption of ample cheap computing power, as that seems to be the direction we're going in. In other words, it ought to become trivial for individuals to come up with better methodologies than this on a whim. And since it'll be so easy for most folks to think up (and implement) stuff like this on their own, there's little point in fretting over exploration of such things now. Rather, we presumably ought to regard stuff like this as mundane thinking.