4. And thinking that it’s actually possible to help future beings in non-negligible ways in expectation[2] (an empirical belief)
I think this part of the definition is weird. We already have the flexible ITC framework for allocating resources across causes, but now we’re switching to this binary decision rule of “is there at least one nonnegligible way to help the future”? This seems like a step down in sophistication. Why don’t we use a continuous measure of how tractable it is to help future beings? That is, why don’t we just use the ITC framework?
I think this part of the definition is weird. We already have the flexible ITC framework for allocating resources across causes, but now we’re switching to this binary decision rule of “is there at least one nonnegligible way to help the future”? This seems like a step down in sophistication. Why don’t we use a continuous measure of how tractable it is to help future beings? That is, why don’t we just use the ITC framework?