I mean, yeah, I’d assume it makes very little sense for anyone right now to be making many / any decisions based on reasoning about supposed acausal bargains with superintelligences in other logically parsimonious universes, or anything like that. Is that what you’re saying?
But I guess “such that we will never interact with them causally at all” seems pretty irrelevant to that specific claim; it also doesn’t make sense to be making many decisions based on reasoning about aliens in distant galaxies, even if we’d plausibly meet them some day. Because of this, I take you to mean something stronger, like “for phenomena such that we will never interact with them causally at all, we should never worry about them”. Is that what you’re saying?
… I’m not sure I’m following …
I mean, yeah, I’d assume it makes very little sense for anyone right now to be making many / any decisions based on reasoning about supposed acausal bargains with superintelligences in other logically parsimonious universes, or anything like that. Is that what you’re saying?
But I guess “such that we will never interact with them causally at all” seems pretty irrelevant to that specific claim; it also doesn’t make sense to be making many decisions based on reasoning about aliens in distant galaxies, even if we’d plausibly meet them some day. Because of this, I take you to mean something stronger, like “for phenomena such that we will never interact with them causally at all, we should never worry about them”. Is that what you’re saying?
(Cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3XMwPNMSbaPm2suGz/belief-in-the-implied-invisible )