Thought about my medianworld and realized that it’s inconsistent: I’m not fully negative utilitarian, but close to, and in the world where I am a median person the more NU half of population will cease to exist quickly, and this will make me non-median person.
Your median-world is not one where you are median across a long span of time, but rather a single snapshot where you are median for a short time. It makes sense that the median will change away from that snapshot as time progresses.
My median world is not one where I would be median for very long.
That’s not inconsistent, unless you think you wouldn’t be NU if it weren’t the median position. Actually, I’d argue that you’re ALREADY not the median position.
I think there is some misunderstanding. Medianworld for you is a hypothetical world where you are a median person. My implied idea was that such a world with me as a median person wouldn’t be stable and probably wouldn’t be able to evolve. Of course I’m aware that I’m not a median person on current Earth :)
Hmm. maybe my misunderstanding is a confusion between moral patients and moral agents in your worldview. Do you, as a mostly-negative-utilitarian, particularly care whether you’re the median of a hypothetical universe? Or do you care about the suffering level in that universe, and continue to care whether it’s median or not.
Thought about my medianworld and realized that it’s inconsistent: I’m not fully negative utilitarian, but close to, and in the world where I am a median person the more NU half of population will cease to exist quickly, and this will make me non-median person.
Your median-world is not one where you are median across a long span of time, but rather a single snapshot where you are median for a short time. It makes sense that the median will change away from that snapshot as time progresses.
My median world is not one where I would be median for very long.
That’s not inconsistent, unless you think you wouldn’t be NU if it weren’t the median position. Actually, I’d argue that you’re ALREADY not the median position.
I think there is some misunderstanding. Medianworld for you is a hypothetical world where you are a median person. My implied idea was that such a world with me as a median person wouldn’t be stable and probably wouldn’t be able to evolve. Of course I’m aware that I’m not a median person on current Earth :)
Hmm. maybe my misunderstanding is a confusion between moral patients and moral agents in your worldview. Do you, as a mostly-negative-utilitarian, particularly care whether you’re the median of a hypothetical universe? Or do you care about the suffering level in that universe, and continue to care whether it’s median or not.
IOW, why does your medianworld matter?
Medianworlds are fanfiction source :) Like, dath ilan is Yudkowsky’s medianworld.