I’m noticing a deeper impediment. Before we can imagine how a morality that is relatable to humans might care about the difference between MW and WC, we need to know how to extend the human morality we bare into the bizarre new territory of quantum physics. We don’t even have a theory of how human morality extends into modernity, we definitely don’t have an idealisation of how human morality should take to the future, and I’m asking for an idealisation of how it would take to something as unprecedented as… timelines popping in and out of existence, universes separated by uncrossable gulfs (how many times have you or your ancestors ever straddled an uncrossable gulf!)
It’s going to be very hard to describe a believable agent that has come to care about this new, hidden, bizarre distinction when we don’t know how we come to care about anything.
I’m noticing a deeper impediment. Before we can imagine how a morality that is relatable to humans might care about the difference between MW and WC, we need to know how to extend the human morality we bare into the bizarre new territory of quantum physics. We don’t even have a theory of how human morality extends into modernity, we definitely don’t have an idealisation of how human morality should take to the future, and I’m asking for an idealisation of how it would take to something as unprecedented as… timelines popping in and out of existence, universes separated by uncrossable gulfs (how many times have you or your ancestors ever straddled an uncrossable gulf!)
It’s going to be very hard to describe a believable agent that has come to care about this new, hidden, bizarre distinction when we don’t know how we come to care about anything.