Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
Hi Fuchs,
Actually, we can "know" them right now. The problem isn't in the knowing, it's in a) the way of knowing (it's a probabilistic sheaf of potential costs) and b) the communicating (most people have a really hard time thinking in probabilistic sheafs).
There's no widely accepted philosophical model for valueing human life in material (or monetary) terms, so how would we be able to already know the net sum of a this complex equation?