To be honest I’m not really sure how important there being a distinction between simple and complex cluelessness actually is. The most useful thing I took from Greaves was to realise there seems to be an issue of complex cluelessness in the first place—where we can’t really form precise credences in certain instances where people have traditionally felt like they can, and that these instances are often faced by EAs when they’re trying to do the most good.
Maybe we’re also complexy clueless about what day to conceive a child on, or which chair to sit on, but we don’t really have our “EA hat on” when doing these things. In other words, I’m not having a child to do the most good, I’m doing it because I want to. So I guess in these circumstances I don’t really care about my complex cluelessness. When giving to charity, I very much do care about any complex cluelessness because I’m trying to do the most good and really thinking hard about how to do so.
I’m still not sure if I would class myself as complexly clueless when deciding which chair to sit on (I think from a subjective standpoint I at least feel simplyclueless), but I’m also not sure this particular debate really matters.
To be honest I’m not really sure how important there being a distinction between simple and complex cluelessness actually is. The most useful thing I took from Greaves was to realise there seems to be an issue of complex cluelessness in the first place—where we can’t really form precise credences in certain instances where people have traditionally felt like they can, and that these instances are often faced by EAs when they’re trying to do the most good.
Maybe we’re also complexy clueless about what day to conceive a child on, or which chair to sit on, but we don’t really have our “EA hat on” when doing these things. In other words, I’m not having a child to do the most good, I’m doing it because I want to. So I guess in these circumstances I don’t really care about my complex cluelessness. When giving to charity, I very much do care about any complex cluelessness because I’m trying to do the most good and really thinking hard about how to do so.
I’m still not sure if I would class myself as complexly clueless when deciding which chair to sit on (I think from a subjective standpoint I at least feel simply clueless), but I’m also not sure this particular debate really matters.