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Page 96 concludes the animal rights section, which seems very uncontroversial to me overall, but I suppose on either end of the debate spectrum this rather down-to-earth point of view is ludicrous.

Next chapter is on marriage.

The chapter concludes that three types of damage must be recognized by policy, and one of those is overemphasized today. Short-term hedonic damage tends to get too much attention, while long-term hedonic damage receives too little. At the same time, capability loss isn't really in the focus of policy at all, because the system is based around assessing hedonic damage.

Next up: animal rights. Off to a good start.

The discussion on hedonic damage (the impact on your enjoyment of life) vs. capability damage (loss of a capability) is interesting.

I can see that hedonic damage gets misjudged a lot. The book contrasts chronic pain to the loss of a limb. The former has a daily impact on your ability to enjoy life, while the latter - in most cases - becomes "part of the furniture" after some time.

Let's see where this will go.

Slow progress on this one; it goes on to discuss how people misjudge the relevance of incidents, and what mechanisms exist to help them understand the truth better.

I had a couple of discussions recently where someone was massively overestimating the risk of something, and walking them through a proper analysis helped. So I get that.

It's tedious and difficult.

Anyway, good description of the issues at hand.

So far, not much surprising. I'm not getting yet why this book was supposed to have been so disruptive.

That said, it is a very well written and concise description of the infodemic issues we've been facing for a while, with some ideas put forward on how to address them.

For the time being, I'm waiting for later chapters to be more revealing; this is, after all, just laying the groundwork.