Therefore if total utilitarianism is not heavily weighted, it will likely remain unimportant; your phrasing “or someone whose moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism” suggested to me that you thought total utilitarianism would be important even if assigned a low weight, which suggested that it was not being normalised.
your phrasing “or someone whose moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism” suggested to me that you thought total utilitarianism would be important even if assigned a low weight, which suggested that it was not being normalised.
Ok, I didn’t mean that. What I meant was that if your moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism, then the total utilitarian part should reason as follows. Would it be clearer / clear enough if I replaced “or someone whose moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism” with “or the total utilitarianism part of someone’s moral uncertainty”?
Normally when I normalise, I use the expected maximum of the utility function if we just maximised it and nothing else: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hBJCMWELaW6MxinYW/intertheoretic-utility-comparison
Therefore if total utilitarianism is not heavily weighted, it will likely remain unimportant; your phrasing “or someone whose moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism” suggested to me that you thought total utilitarianism would be important even if assigned a low weight, which suggested that it was not being normalised.
Ok, I didn’t mean that. What I meant was that if your moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism, then the total utilitarian part should reason as follows. Would it be clearer / clear enough if I replaced “or someone whose moral uncertainty includes total utilitarianism” with “or the total utilitarianism part of someone’s moral uncertainty”?
I think that would be clearer, yes.
Thanks, I’ve made that edit.