I think you can do some steelmanning of the anti-flippers with something like Lara Buchak’s arguments on risk and rationality. Then you’d be replacing the vague “the utility maximizing policy seems bad” argument with a more concrete “I want to do population ethics over the multiverse” argument.
Alas, I am not familiar with Lara Buchak’s arguments, and the high-level summary I can get from Googling them isn’t sufficient to tell me how it’s supposed to capture something utility maximizing can’t. Was there a specific argument you had in mind?
I think you can do some steelmanning of the anti-flippers with something like Lara Buchak’s arguments on risk and rationality. Then you’d be replacing the vague “the utility maximizing policy seems bad” argument with a more concrete “I want to do population ethics over the multiverse” argument.
Alas, I am not familiar with Lara Buchak’s arguments, and the high-level summary I can get from Googling them isn’t sufficient to tell me how it’s supposed to capture something utility maximizing can’t. Was there a specific argument you had in mind?