I just really don’t buy the whole “let’s add up qualia” as any basis of moral calculation
Same, honestly. To me, many of these thought experiments seem decoupled from anything practically relevant. But it still seems to me that people often do argue from those abstracted-out frames I’d outlined, and these arguments are probably sometimes useful for establishing at least some agreement on ethics. (I’m not sure how a full-complexity godshatter-on-godshatter argument would even look like (a fistfight, maybe?), and am very skeptical it’d yield any useful results.)
Anyway, it sounds like we mostly figured out what the initial drastic disconnect between our views here was caused by?
Same, honestly. To me, many of these thought experiments seem decoupled from anything practically relevant. But it still seems to me that people often do argue from those abstracted-out frames I’d outlined, and these arguments are probably sometimes useful for establishing at least some agreement on ethics. (I’m not sure how a full-complexity godshatter-on-godshatter argument would even look like (a fistfight, maybe?), and am very skeptical it’d yield any useful results.)
Anyway, it sounds like we mostly figured out what the initial drastic disconnect between our views here was caused by?
Yeah, I think so, though not sure. But I feel good stopping here.