Utilitarianism for Engineers, Part II

A 269-word micro-post: Scott notes Tufts has a searchable public database of health-outcome utilities (QALYs), laments that no one has extended utility measurement to non-health states (poverty, totalitarian government), and solicits readers to take his amateur utility-measurement survey (now closed). Mostly a survey request plus a brief musing on operationalizing utilitarianism.

Quality 49 · Solid. Barely more than a stub -- a survey solicitation with one small real nugget (the QALY-database / non-health-states gap). Mid-Solid floor.

Claude’s paradigm shift 22 · Slight. Slight. Points at a measurement gap rather than offering anything new.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. A micro-post survey solicitation with one small nugget (the QALY-database / non-health-states gap); barely more than a stub, no material-world reach → RWI 1.