What do you think absorbers might be in cases of complex cluelessness? I see that delaying someone on the street might just cause them to spend 30 seconds less procrastinating, but how might this work for distributing bednets, or increasing economic growth?
Maybe there’s an line of argument around nothing being counterfactual in the long-term - because every time you solve a problem someone else was going to solve it eventually. Eg. if you didn’t increase growth in some region, someone else would have 50 years later. And now you did it they won’t. But this just sounds like a weirdly stable system and I guess this isn’t what you have in mind
What do you think absorbers might be in cases of complex cluelessness? I see that delaying someone on the street might just cause them to spend 30 seconds less procrastinating, but how might this work for distributing bednets, or increasing economic growth?
Maybe there’s an line of argument around nothing being counterfactual in the long-term - because every time you solve a problem someone else was going to solve it eventually. Eg. if you didn’t increase growth in some region, someone else would have 50 years later. And now you did it they won’t. But this just sounds like a weirdly stable system and I guess this isn’t what you have in mind
I suppose an example would be that increasing economic growth in a country doesn’t matter if the country later gets blown up or something.