A sneeze can determine much more than hurricane/no hurricane. It can determine the identities of everyone who exists, say, a few hundred years into the future and onwards.
If you’re not already familiar, this argument gets made all the time in debates about “consequentialist cluelessness”. This gets discussed, among other places, in this interview with Hilary Greaves: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/hilary-greaves-global-priorities-institute/. It’s also related to the paralysis argument I mentioned in my other comment.
A sneeze can determine much more than hurricane/no hurricane. It can determine the identities of everyone who exists, say, a few hundred years into the future and onwards.
If you’re not already familiar, this argument gets made all the time in debates about “consequentialist cluelessness”. This gets discussed, among other places, in this interview with Hilary Greaves: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/hilary-greaves-global-priorities-institute/. It’s also related to the paralysis argument I mentioned in my other comment.