Upvoting back to zero because I think this is an important question to address.
If I prefer that people not be tortured, and that’s more important to me than anything else, then I ought not prefer a system that puts all the torturers in their own part of the world where I don’t have to interact with them over a system that prevents them from torturing.
More generally, this strategy only works if there’s nothing I prefer/antiprefer exist, but merely things that I prefer/antiprefer to be aware of.
[T]here’s nothing I prefer/antiprefer exist, but merely things that I prefer/antiprefer to be aware of.
is a conceivable extrapolation from a starting point where you antiprefer something’s existence (in the extreme, with MWI you may not have much say what does/doesn’t exist, just how much of it in which branches).
It’s also possible that you hold both preferences (prefer X not exist, prefer not to be aware of X) and the existence preference gets dropped for being incompatible with other values held by other people while the awareness preference does not.
Upvoting back to zero because I think this is an important question to address.
If I prefer that people not be tortured, and that’s more important to me than anything else, then I ought not prefer a system that puts all the torturers in their own part of the world where I don’t have to interact with them over a system that prevents them from torturing.
More generally, this strategy only works if there’s nothing I prefer/antiprefer exist, but merely things that I prefer/antiprefer to be aware of.
It’s a potential outcome, I suppose, in that
is a conceivable extrapolation from a starting point where you antiprefer something’s existence (in the extreme, with MWI you may not have much say what does/doesn’t exist, just how much of it in which branches).
It’s also possible that you hold both preferences (prefer X not exist, prefer not to be aware of X) and the existence preference gets dropped for being incompatible with other values held by other people while the awareness preference does not.