The apples being unbounded thing was just a brief intuition pump. It wasn’t really connected to the other stuff.
I don’t think the argument actually requires that different value systems can be compared in fungible units. You can just compare stuff that is, in one value system, clearly better than something in another value system. So, assume you have a credence of .5 in fanaticism and of .5 in bounded views. Well, creating 10,000 happy people given bounded views is less good than creating 10 trillion suffering people given unbounded views. But that’s less good than a one in googol chance of creating infinite people given unbounded views. So by transitivity, a 1/googol chance of infinite people given unbounded views wins out.
The apples being unbounded thing was just a brief intuition pump. It wasn’t really connected to the other stuff.
I don’t think the argument actually requires that different value systems can be compared in fungible units. You can just compare stuff that is, in one value system, clearly better than something in another value system. So, assume you have a credence of .5 in fanaticism and of .5 in bounded views. Well, creating 10,000 happy people given bounded views is less good than creating 10 trillion suffering people given unbounded views. But that’s less good than a one in googol chance of creating infinite people given unbounded views. So by transitivity, a 1/googol chance of infinite people given unbounded views wins out.