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by hackeraccount
2513 days ago
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I only read the abstract but that paper seemed to be answering the questions about the age people retire at and what benefits the accrue. That's informative about the trade offs - should we take money from X and give it to Y - but it says nothing about if we want to give it to Y. Maybe we all like X and if it's a penny for Y to have a holiday we'd still say "Screw Y." Maybe we despise X and will take the last penny of X to give to Y for no obvious benefit. That paper can in some way help people make an informed decision but we live in a finite world and it doesn't, shouldn't and can't tell them how to make the trade offs. |
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^ Your comment sounds very much like my own (below), so I don't know what the disagreement is.
> Science can help us figure out how our decisions will affect society. What society optimizes for is up for political discourse.