Regarding identical computation, there is still the notion of measure—which is well above my pay grade. You may not be interested in measure, but maybe measure is interested in you? Though the small pertubations stuff maybe solves that fully?
I stopped contending with population ethics when I just started thinking it was sort of begging the utility function in many regards. I am allowed to just want exactly 20488449494122 humans to exist in our lightcone, after all, or even think all who live now should coordinate against the unborn so as to apportion the universe between themselves or any other of many perfectly-coherent desires. What I was intended to find counterintuitive did not always seem so to me. I think my main take is, maxing happy lives seems fine for now, but should I become God, I would take a bit of a sabbatical for a long reflection. Yudkowsky’s claimed desired shape for the lightcone may well not be my own. And even under his frame, one still has to contend with the problem of “soul size” as you mention.
Yeah, measure is pretty much what I was trying to get at in this post without trying to get into actually measure. I think a more detailed rewrite of this would maybe go into measure and more math, but that isn’t my priority for now. I agree that you can want exactly some constant c number of beings; once again I’m not trying to give the One Objective Morality here, I’m just talking about the shape that my values seem to be when I look at them, and maybe other people will find this useful.
Regarding identical computation, there is still the notion of measure—which is well above my pay grade. You may not be interested in measure, but maybe measure is interested in you? Though the small pertubations stuff maybe solves that fully?
I stopped contending with population ethics when I just started thinking it was sort of begging the utility function in many regards. I am allowed to just want exactly 20488449494122 humans to exist in our lightcone, after all, or even think all who live now should coordinate against the unborn so as to apportion the universe between themselves or any other of many perfectly-coherent desires. What I was intended to find counterintuitive did not always seem so to me. I think my main take is, maxing happy lives seems fine for now, but should I become God, I would take a bit of a sabbatical for a long reflection. Yudkowsky’s claimed desired shape for the lightcone may well not be my own. And even under his frame, one still has to contend with the problem of “soul size” as you mention.
Yeah, measure is pretty much what I was trying to get at in this post without trying to get into actually measure. I think a more detailed rewrite of this would maybe go into measure and more math, but that isn’t my priority for now. I agree that you can want exactly some constant c number of beings; once again I’m not trying to give the One Objective Morality here, I’m just talking about the shape that my values seem to be when I look at them, and maybe other people will find this useful.