Another way to put this: some types of caring are the types of caring where you’re willing to allocate 1 / billionth of your resources on it even if you learn that you are extremely rich (so these resource could buy a lot of what you want in absolute terms). But you can also have preferences for what to spend your money on which depend strongly on what options are available; you’d be willing to trade some absolute amount of value for the thing and if it ends up being that your wealthier and can buy more in absolute terms, you’d be willing to spend a smaller fraction of money on the thing.
I’m predicting a type of caring/kindness which is the first rather than a type of preference which cares about questions like “exactly how big is the cosmic endowment”.
Another way to put this: some types of caring are the types of caring where you’re willing to allocate 1 / billionth of your resources on it even if you learn that you are extremely rich (so these resource could buy a lot of what you want in absolute terms). But you can also have preferences for what to spend your money on which depend strongly on what options are available; you’d be willing to trade some absolute amount of value for the thing and if it ends up being that your wealthier and can buy more in absolute terms, you’d be willing to spend a smaller fraction of money on the thing.
I’m predicting a type of caring/kindness which is the first rather than a type of preference which cares about questions like “exactly how big is the cosmic endowment”.