What about “stealing from civs we’re not causally connected with is good/bad”?
I’m not sure you’ve given arguments for bad over good.
We might hope that successful civilisations have norms that generalize to this case from the causal coordination they do.
This seems more likely if there are more scales-of-coordination still to be discovered (eg if causally coordinating with alien civs will be important), and if power is more broadly distributed (vs one company taking over the world and coordination outside that company not mattering)
We might hope that successful civilisations have norms that generalize to this case from the causal coordination they do.
Yep, I think in the end we’ll settle on irreducible-computation-causation as the main notion of causation relevant to morality, and then there won’t be a special case to be made about the causal/acausal distinction.
What about “stealing from civs we’re not causally connected with is good/bad”?
I’m not sure you’ve given arguments for bad over good.
We might hope that successful civilisations have norms that generalize to this case from the causal coordination they do.
This seems more likely if there are more scales-of-coordination still to be discovered (eg if causally coordinating with alien civs will be important), and if power is more broadly distributed (vs one company taking over the world and coordination outside that company not mattering)
(Btw great post!!)
Yep, I think in the end we’ll settle on irreducible-computation-causation as the main notion of causation relevant to morality, and then there won’t be a special case to be made about the causal/acausal distinction.
But is there any active selection for that amongst civilizations who survive and grow?