I think you and Ben have picked up the part of the problem I wasn’t focusing on. I’m less concerned about the totalist version: I think you can spin a version of the story where you should donate the end of time, and that’s just the best thing you can do.
My point was that, given you accept the totalist philanthropist’s paradox, there’s an additional weirdness for person-affecting views. That’s the bit I found interesting.
Although, I suppose there’s a reframing this that makes the puzzle more curious. Totalists get a paradox where they recognise they should donate at the end of time, and that feels odd. Person-affecting views might think they dodge this problem by denying the value of the far future, but they get another kind of paradox for them.
I think you and Ben have picked up the part of the problem I wasn’t focusing on. I’m less concerned about the totalist version: I think you can spin a version of the story where you should donate the end of time, and that’s just the best thing you can do.
My point was that, given you accept the totalist philanthropist’s paradox, there’s an additional weirdness for person-affecting views. That’s the bit I found interesting.
Although, I suppose there’s a reframing this that makes the puzzle more curious. Totalists get a paradox where they recognise they should donate at the end of time, and that feels odd. Person-affecting views might think they dodge this problem by denying the value of the far future, but they get another kind of paradox for them.
Yeah not saying anything in contradiction to you, just adding my own two cents on the thing.