It’s worth noting that everything funges: some large number of experiences of eating a chocolate bar can be exchanged for avoiding extreme human suffering or death. So, if you lexicographically put higher weight on extreme human suffering or death, then you’re willing to make extreme tradeoffs (e.g.1030 chocolate bar experiences) in terms of mundane utility for saving a single life. I think this easily leads to extremely unintuitive conclusions, e.g. you shouldn’t ever be willing to drive to a nice place. See also Trading off Lives.
I find your response to this sort of argument under “Relevance: There’s reasoning that goes” in the footnote very uncompelling as it doesn’t apply to marginal impacts.
It’s worth noting that everything funges: some large number of experiences of eating a chocolate bar can be exchanged for avoiding extreme human suffering or death. So, if you lexicographically put higher weight on extreme human suffering or death, then you’re willing to make extreme tradeoffs (e.g.1030 chocolate bar experiences) in terms of mundane utility for saving a single life. I think this easily leads to extremely unintuitive conclusions, e.g. you shouldn’t ever be willing to drive to a nice place. See also Trading off Lives.
I find your response to this sort of argument under “Relevance: There’s reasoning that goes” in the footnote very uncompelling as it doesn’t apply to marginal impacts.