My naive reaction is that this feels entirely too galaxy brained by about 210. If you start getting extremely counterintuitive results by adding entities from outside your lightcone, stop adding entities outside your lightcone. They’re unknowable. They’re not morally relevant.
I’m only 65% confident in this, and I haven’t done a deep dive into infinite ethics, but I still haven’t seen any argument for why things that can never be known are morally relevant.
Yes, I’m almost certain it’s too ‘galaxy brained’! But does the case rely on entities outside our light cone? Aren’t there many ‘worlds’ within our light cone? (I literally have no idea, you may be right, and someone who knows should intervene)
I’m more confident that this needn’t relate to the literature on infinite ethics, since I don’t think any of this relies on inifinities.
I use ‘light cone’ to point at ‘something which cannot ever conceivably casually affect anything in our present or future’. I don’t know if the light-cone concept generalizes to the Everett QM branches; if not, the substitute ‘anything which is in principle unknowable’.
My naive reaction is that this feels entirely too galaxy brained by about 210. If you start getting extremely counterintuitive results by adding entities from outside your lightcone, stop adding entities outside your lightcone. They’re unknowable. They’re not morally relevant.
I’m only 65% confident in this, and I haven’t done a deep dive into infinite ethics, but I still haven’t seen any argument for why things that can never be known are morally relevant.
Yes, I’m almost certain it’s too ‘galaxy brained’! But does the case rely on entities outside our light cone? Aren’t there many ‘worlds’ within our light cone? (I literally have no idea, you may be right, and someone who knows should intervene)
I’m more confident that this needn’t relate to the literature on infinite ethics, since I don’t think any of this relies on inifinities.
I use ‘light cone’ to point at ‘something which cannot ever conceivably casually affect anything in our present or future’. I don’t know if the light-cone concept generalizes to the Everett QM branches; if not, the substitute ‘anything which is in principle unknowable’.