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> If it can give better outcomes wouldn’t it be more unethical not to use it? Better outcomes by what metric? If out of two people after the operation one will
by lr1970 4y ago
> If it can give better outcomes wouldn’t it be more unethical not to use it?
Better outcomes by what metric? If out of two people after the operation one will live 5 years and another 6 years -- which one would you choose? How would you trade 5 years of one's life against the 6 years of another's? Family, number of children, societal impact, race, gender, etc ? How to quantify all that?
- mwint 4y agoZooming into specific anecdotes is a paralyzing trap in almost all policy discussion. This is a population-level question; you look at population level results and only look at individual cases to search for obvious terrible effects.
- tpoacher 4y agoThis is true, but still does not counter the "rough prototypes have a bad habit of becoming end-products" curse the OP is effectively talking about. Not to mention your argument could be trivially used to justify social credit scores etc, which most people would agree is bad.