Besides uncertainty, there’s the problem of needing to pick cutoffs between tiers in a ~continuous space of ‘how much effect does this have on a person’s life?’, with things slightly on one side or the other of a cutoff being treated very differently.
Intuitively, tiers correspond to the size of effect a given experience has on a person’s life:
I agree with the intuition that this is important, but I think that points toward just rejecting utilitarianism (as in utility-as-a-function-purely-of-local-experiences, not consequentialism).
Besides uncertainty, there’s the problem of needing to pick cutoffs between tiers in a ~continuous space of ‘how much effect does this have on a person’s life?’, with things slightly on one side or the other of a cutoff being treated very differently.
I agree with the intuition that this is important, but I think that points toward just rejecting utilitarianism (as in utility-as-a-function-purely-of-local-experiences, not consequentialism).