I was attempting to answer the first point, so let me rephrase:
Even though your ability to affect prisoners in North Korea is miniscule, we can still look at how much of it you’re doing. Are you spending any time seeking out ways you could be affecting them? Are you voting for and supporting and lobbying politicians who are more likely to use their greater power to affect the NK prisoner’s lives? Are you doing [unknown thing that the AI figures out would affect them]?
And, also, are you doing anything that is making their situation worse? Or any other of the multiple axis of being, since happiness isn’t everything, and even happiness isn’t a one-dimentional scale.
“Who counts as a moral agent? (And should they all have equal weights)” Is a question of philosophy, which I am not qualified to answer. But “who gets to decide the values to teach” it’s one meta-level up from the question of “how do we teach values”, so I take it as a given for the latter problem.
I was attempting to answer the first point, so let me rephrase: Even though your ability to affect prisoners in North Korea is miniscule, we can still look at how much of it you’re doing. Are you spending any time seeking out ways you could be affecting them? Are you voting for and supporting and lobbying politicians who are more likely to use their greater power to affect the NK prisoner’s lives? Are you doing [unknown thing that the AI figures out would affect them]? And, also, are you doing anything that is making their situation worse? Or any other of the multiple axis of being, since happiness isn’t everything, and even happiness isn’t a one-dimentional scale.
“Who counts as a moral agent? (And should they all have equal weights)” Is a question of philosophy, which I am not qualified to answer. But “who gets to decide the values to teach” it’s one meta-level up from the question of “how do we teach values”, so I take it as a given for the latter problem.
This analysis falls apart when we take things to their logical extreme: I care about the happiness of human who are time-like separated from me.