It seems plausible that what you suggest is one significant contributor. Here’s one more thing that imo plausibly contributes significantly:
Most of these people are consequentialists, i.e. they think of ethics in terms of sth like designing a good spacetime block.[1] Like, when making a decision, you are making a decision as if standing outside the universe and choosing which of two spacetime blocks[2] is better. Given this view of ethics, it is very natural to imagine a future in which there actually is some guy that designs/chooses a good spacetime block, and it becomes somewhat less natural to imagine futures in which the spacetime block keeps getting “designed/chosen” in a messy way by all the messy stuff inside the spacetime block, with the designing/choosing and the being-valuable done by the same entities. A person who thinks in terms of duties or a person who thinks in terms of virtues would find it much less natural to have such a strong separation between the locus of moral-agent-hood and the locus of moral-patient-hood.
Given this view of ethics, it is very natural to imagine a future in which there actually is some guy that designs/chooses a good spacetime block, and it becomes somewhat less natural to imagine futures in which the spacetime block keeps getting “designed/chosen” in a messy way by all the messy stuff inside the spacetime block, with the designing/choosing and the being-valuable done by the same entities
This seems to fit extremely poorly with the number of rules-based religions that have creator gods. It seems like your argument is proving too much.
It seems plausible that what you suggest is one significant contributor. Here’s one more thing that imo plausibly contributes significantly:
Most of these people are consequentialists, i.e. they think of ethics in terms of sth like designing a good spacetime block. [1] Like, when making a decision, you are making a decision as if standing outside the universe and choosing which of two spacetime blocks [2] is better. Given this view of ethics, it is very natural to imagine a future in which there actually is some guy that designs/chooses a good spacetime block, and it becomes somewhat less natural to imagine futures in which the spacetime block keeps getting “designed/chosen” in a messy way by all the messy stuff inside the spacetime block, with the designing/choosing and the being-valuable done by the same entities. A person who thinks in terms of duties or a person who thinks in terms of virtues would find it much less natural to have such a strong separation between the locus of moral-agent-hood and the locus of moral-patient-hood.
or at least they are much more in this direction than the median person, or even the median person at their iq
or more precisely: two distributions on spacetime blocks
“Unilateralist consequentialists think they’re just temporarily embarrassed omnipotentates.”
This seems to fit extremely poorly with the number of rules-based religions that have creator gods. It seems like your argument is proving too much.