I agree it doesn’t make sense to talk about this kind of change as what we want impact measures to penalize, but i think you could talk about this abstract sense of change. You could have an agent with beliefs about the world state, and some distance function over world states, and then penalize change in observed world state compared to some counterfactual.
This kind of change isn’t the same thing as perceived impact, however.
I agree it doesn’t make sense to talk about this kind of change as what we want impact measures to penalize, but i think you could talk about this abstract sense of change. You could have an agent with beliefs about the world state, and some distance function over world states, and then penalize change in observed world state compared to some counterfactual.
This kind of change isn’t the same thing as perceived impact, however.