Then, once you receive your stickers, you can log into the site's dashboard and configure where you'd like each of these short URLs to point to (the upshot to this is that you can change the URL even once the stickers are deployed in the field).
One natural suggestion is that the agent who is positively relevant to the upshot causes it to occur; whereas the agent who is negatively relevant to the upshot doesn't cause it, but simply fails to prevent it where she could have done so.[6] This suggestion has immediate moral implications.
Now with respect to some behavior that led to some upshot, we might ask: would that upshot have occurred if the agent had abstained from intervening in the course of nature?
With their competitors all dead, the progeny of a mosquito carrying a mutation that can neutralise the insecticide in question have the world to themselves.The upshot is that discovering a way to retain the anti-malarial benefits of insecticides without provoking an evolutionary response would be a significant breakthrough.
-Josh Katz explains changes to the Upshot Senate model if Georgia goes to a runoff.
Moreover, it cannot be sufficient for positive relevance to an upshot that physical forces run from the agent to the victim or patient at the appropriate time.
If most of the ways one could have behaved would have led to an upshot, then it was probably somewhat difficult or onerous to avoid the upshot; whereas if most of the ways one could have behaved would not have led to an upshot, then it was probably fairly easy to avoid the upshot.
One suggestion is to say that when the agent is positively relevant to the upshot, the upshot would not have occurred if she had been absent from the scene.[9] Suppose, for example, the victim dies because I push his head under water.
To determine whether the agent is positively or negatively relevant to an upshot, we should consider what would have happened if the agent had not acted at the relevant moment, or what would have happened if the agent had 'abstained from intervening in the course of nature'.
He says that my behavior is negatively relevant to an upshot if a negative fact about my behavior is the least informative fact that suffices to complete a causal explanation of it; whereas my behavior is positively relevant to that upshot if a positive fact about my behavior is the least informative fact about my conduct that suffices to complete a causal explanation of it.
