(I unfortunately don’t have time to engage with the rest of this comment, just want to clarify the following:)
Indeed, bracketing off “infinite ethics shenanigans” could be seen as an implicit acknowledgment of such a de-facto breakdown or boundary in the practical scope of impartiality.
Sorry this wasn’t clear — I in fact don’t think we’re justified in ignoring infinite ethics. In the footnote you’re quoting, I was simply erring on the side of being generous to the non-clueless view, to make things easier to follow. So my core objection doesn’t reduce to “problems with infinities”, rather I object to ignoring considerations that dominate our impact for no particular reason other than practical expedience. :) (ETA: Which isn’t to say we need to solve infinite ethics to be justified in anything.)
I was simply erring on the side of being generous to the non-clueless view
Right, I suspected that — hence the remark about infinite ethics considerations counting as an additional problem to what’s addressed here. My point was that the non-clueless view addressed here (finite case) already implicitly entails scope limitations, so if one embraces that view, the question seems to be what the limitation (or discounting) in scope is, not whether there is one.
(I unfortunately don’t have time to engage with the rest of this comment, just want to clarify the following:)
Sorry this wasn’t clear — I in fact don’t think we’re justified in ignoring infinite ethics. In the footnote you’re quoting, I was simply erring on the side of being generous to the non-clueless view, to make things easier to follow. So my core objection doesn’t reduce to “problems with infinities”, rather I object to ignoring considerations that dominate our impact for no particular reason other than practical expedience. :) (ETA: Which isn’t to say we need to solve infinite ethics to be justified in anything.)
Right, I suspected that — hence the remark about infinite ethics considerations counting as an additional problem to what’s addressed here. My point was that the non-clueless view addressed here (finite case) already implicitly entails scope limitations, so if one embraces that view, the question seems to be what the limitation (or discounting) in scope is, not whether there is one.