I suppose by ‘the universe’ I meant what you would call the inflationary multiverse, that is including distant regions we are now out of contact with. I personally tend not to call regions separated by mere distance separate universes.
”and the only impact of our actions with infinite values is the number of black holes we create.”
Yes, that would be the infinite impact I had in mind, doubling the number would double the number of infinite branching trees of descendant universes.
Re simulations, yes, there is indeed a possibility of influencing other levels, although we would be more clueless, and it is a way for us to be in a causally connected patch with infinite future.
We tried to be clear that we were discussing influenceable value, i.e. value relevant for decisions. Unreachable parts of our universe, which are uninfluenceable, may not be finite, but not in a way that changes any decision we would make. I agree that they are part of the universe, but I think that if we assume standard theories of physics, i.e. without child universes and without assuming simulation, the questions in infinite ethics don’t make them relevant. But we should probably qualify these points more clearly in the paper.
I suppose by ‘the universe’ I meant what you would call the inflationary multiverse, that is including distant regions we are now out of contact with. I personally tend not to call regions separated by mere distance separate universes.
”and the only impact of our actions with infinite values is the number of black holes we create.”
Yes, that would be the infinite impact I had in mind, doubling the number would double the number of infinite branching trees of descendant universes.
Re simulations, yes, there is indeed a possibility of influencing other levels, although we would be more clueless, and it is a way for us to be in a causally connected patch with infinite future.
We tried to be clear that we were discussing influenceable value, i.e. value relevant for decisions. Unreachable parts of our universe, which are uninfluenceable, may not be finite, but not in a way that changes any decision we would make. I agree that they are part of the universe, but I think that if we assume standard theories of physics, i.e. without child universes and without assuming simulation, the questions in infinite ethics don’t make them relevant. But we should probably qualify these points more clearly in the paper.
As I said, the story was in combination with one-boxing decision theories and our duplicate counterparts.