"But I care nonlinearly about my personal causal contribution to local X for reasons other than how I'm affecting total X!"
If you care nonlinearly about total X across many places, but you can only affect X locally, you must care linearly about local X.
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Eh. Relative to what baseline? Feels like you may as well give up on morality-as-making-the-universe-a-better-place then.
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Caring about causal contributions to a thing in a way that isn't a subgoal of caring about the thing seems cargo-cultish.
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@MemberOfSpecies "I have to find out what would have happened if I hadn't existed, or I won't know how much to care."
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@MemberOfSpecies That is only true if your utility function is differentiable in total X, which is admittedly a quite reasonable assumption.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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