These are all empirical questions, but they seem very important for Devon’s ultimate decision, as T1 and T2 don’t “intrinsicallycare”about buying fish curry or buying tofu curry; they care about some of the outcomes which those actions may or may not cause.[4]
I mean this:
These are all empirical rather than moral questions, but they still seem very important for Devon’s ultimate decision. This is because T1 and T2 don’t “intrinsicallycare”about whether someone buys fish curry or buys tofu curry; these theories assign no terminal value to which curry is bought. Instead, these theories “care” about some of the outcomes which those actions may or may not cause.[4]
Does that seem clearer to you? If so, I may edit the post to say that.
ETA: The ultimate point this is driving at is that, as covered in the next sentence, accounting for moral uncertainty alone doesn’t seem sufficient. I had assumed that would be clear from the intro and from the following sentence, but let me know if you think it’d be worth me adding something like “Thus, it seems Devon should account for his empirical uncertainty as well as his moral uncertainty” to the paragraph the above quotes are from.
Thanks for this feedback!
By this:
I mean this:
Does that seem clearer to you? If so, I may edit the post to say that.
ETA: The ultimate point this is driving at is that, as covered in the next sentence, accounting for moral uncertainty alone doesn’t seem sufficient. I had assumed that would be clear from the intro and from the following sentence, but let me know if you think it’d be worth me adding something like “Thus, it seems Devon should account for his empirical uncertainty as well as his moral uncertainty” to the paragraph the above quotes are from.
It does, thanks!
I think the change already covers that, by establishing the relationship between empirical and moral questions.
A good property to have.
Great—now edited (also on the EA Forum). Really appreciate the feedback here and on the last post!
(And for anyone who for some reason cares, here’s a frozen version of how this was when originally posted.)