At first glance I think it feels a bit nonsensical to try to “help” a rainforest. But, I’m kinda worried that it’ll turn out that it’s not (much) less nonsensical to try to help a human, and figuring out how to help arbitrary non-obviously-agenty systems seems like it might be the sort of thing we have to understand.
Yeah this question of what it really means to help some non-pure-agent living entity seems more and more central to me. It also, unfortunately, seems more and more difficult. Another way that I state the question in order to meditate on it is: what does it mean to act out of true love?
Yeah this question of what it really means to help some non-pure-agent living entity seems more and more central to me. It also, unfortunately, seems more and more difficult. Another way that I state the question in order to meditate on it is: what does it mean to act out of true love?