Executive summary: Moral theories could trade influence over agents based on impact potential, leading to different ethical approaches for ordinary people vs leaders, and potentially reducing the influence of aggregative consequentialism in finite worlds.
Key points:
Moral theories could trade influence, with deontological theories favoring ordinary people and aggregative theories favoring high-impact individuals.
This could result in a world where ordinary people follow strict moral rules while leaders maximize total welfare.
Different moral theories may prefer influence over agents based on their potential impact and the size of the world.
Aggregative theories might trade away influence in finite worlds for control in potentially infinite ones.
The observation that our world is finite may imply reducing the influence of aggregative consequentialism.
Moral theories might agree to dedicate resources to physics research to resolve influence disputes based on universe properties.
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Executive summary: Moral theories could trade influence over agents based on impact potential, leading to different ethical approaches for ordinary people vs leaders, and potentially reducing the influence of aggregative consequentialism in finite worlds.
Key points:
Moral theories could trade influence, with deontological theories favoring ordinary people and aggregative theories favoring high-impact individuals.
This could result in a world where ordinary people follow strict moral rules while leaders maximize total welfare.
Different moral theories may prefer influence over agents based on their potential impact and the size of the world.
Aggregative theories might trade away influence in finite worlds for control in potentially infinite ones.
The observation that our world is finite may imply reducing the influence of aggregative consequentialism.
Moral theories might agree to dedicate resources to physics research to resolve influence disputes based on universe properties.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.