We would lose a great deal of value by optimizing the universe according to current moral uncertainty, without the opportunity to reflect and become less uncertain over time.
There’s a great deal of reflection necessary to figure out what actions moral theory X recommends, e.g. to figure out which minds exist or what implicit promises people have made to each other. I don’t see this reflection as distinct from reflection about moral uncertainty; if we’re going to defer to a reflection process anyway for making decisions, we might as well let that reflection process decide on issues of moral theory.
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We would lose a great deal of value by optimizing the universe according to current moral uncertainty, without the opportunity to reflect and become less uncertain over time.
There’s a great deal of reflection necessary to figure out what actions moral theory X recommends, e.g. to figure out which minds exist or what implicit promises people have made to each other. I don’t see this reflection as distinct from reflection about moral uncertainty; if we’re going to defer to a reflection process anyway for making decisions, we might as well let that reflection process decide on issues of moral theory.