It seems to me like you were like: “why not regiment one’s thinking xyz-ly?” (in your original question), to which I was like “if one regiments one thinking xyz-ly, then it’s an utter disaster” (in that bullet point), and now you’re like “even if it’s an utter disaster, I don’t care
My claim is that your notion of “utter disaster” presumes that a consequentialist under deep uncertainty has some sense of what to do, such that they don’t consider ~everything permissible. This begs the question against severe imprecision. I don’t really see why we should expect our pretheoretic intuitions about the verdicts of a value system as weird as impartial longtermist consequentialism, under uncertainty as severe as ours, to be a guide to our epistemics.
I agree that intuitively it’s a very strange and disturbing verdict that ~everything is permissible! But that seems to be the fault of impartial longtermist consequentialism, not imprecise beliefs.
My claim is that your notion of “utter disaster” presumes that a consequentialist under deep uncertainty has some sense of what to do, such that they don’t consider ~everything permissible. This begs the question against severe imprecision. I don’t really see why we should expect our pretheoretic intuitions about the verdicts of a value system as weird as impartial longtermist consequentialism, under uncertainty as severe as ours, to be a guide to our epistemics.
I agree that intuitively it’s a very strange and disturbing verdict that ~everything is permissible! But that seems to be the fault of impartial longtermist consequentialism, not imprecise beliefs.