I think deontology is not about making decisions, but rather about carrying them out. It’s deference, an aspect of corrigibility that’s not about attainment of goals. For an updateless agent, there is a problem of predictably following the rules/principles set out in the logical past (so that the past can anticipate that fact and plan for the consequences of future’s compliance), and deontology captures the spirit of that activity much better than consequentialism.
Decisions are governed by preference that could be attained in a corrigible way. Actions are governed by rules that could be attained in a deferential way. Decisions are consequentialist, determined by preference looking at consequences, ignoring the local moral/epistemic state (this is updatelessness). Actions are deontological, determined by rules looking at local moral/epistemic state, ignoring the consequences (a kind of myopia).
I think deontology is not about making decisions, but rather about carrying them out. It’s deference, an aspect of corrigibility that’s not about attainment of goals. For an updateless agent, there is a problem of predictably following the rules/principles set out in the logical past (so that the past can anticipate that fact and plan for the consequences of future’s compliance), and deontology captures the spirit of that activity much better than consequentialism.
Decisions are governed by preference that could be attained in a corrigible way. Actions are governed by rules that could be attained in a deferential way. Decisions are consequentialist, determined by preference looking at consequences, ignoring the local moral/epistemic state (this is updatelessness). Actions are deontological, determined by rules looking at local moral/epistemic state, ignoring the consequences (a kind of myopia).