I meant that I don’t think it’s obvious that most people in EA working on this would agree.
I do think it’s obvious that most people overall would agree, though most would not agree or be unsure that a simulation matters at all. It’s even very unclear how to count person-experiences overall, as Johnston’s Personite paper argues: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26631215 and I’ll also point to the general double-counting problem: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-020-01428-9 and suggest that it could apply.
I agree with you, as do most people outside of EA, but I believe almost everyone in EA working on these topics disagrees
I meant that I don’t think it’s obvious that most people in EA working on this would agree.
I do think it’s obvious that most people overall would agree, though most would not agree or be unsure that a simulation matters at all. It’s even very unclear how to count person-experiences overall, as Johnston’s Personite paper argues: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26631215 and I’ll also point to the general double-counting problem: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-020-01428-9 and suggest that it could apply.
Interesting. Could you point to anyone in EA who does not agree with the additive view and works in this field?