You don't have to care about that. You just look at the metrics for goodness I'm using, and the assumptions underlying that, and see if you agree with them. Som

You don't have to care about that. You just look at the metrics for goodness I'm using, and the assumptions underlying that, and see if you agree with them. Some of them are pretty common, such as human life having value in itself. I guess I see the point of the article now, if EA people are saying their way of measuring goodness is the only way. That does deserve skepticism and requests for proof.