thereâs some reason, that does not come to mind rn, why bracketing over those would fail to provide action guidance?
The worry is very similar to the worry about bracketing on persons: identity of person-moments is super fragile.
Letâs say I donate to AMF. There are some far-future person-moments for which I am clueful that donating to AMF seriously harms them, because these person-moments only exist in the possible worlds corresponding to [insert far-future backfire risk here]. And we can say the same substituting in âbenefitsâ for âharmsâ. We then end up a maximal bracket-set on which the donation is good, and one on which the donation is bad.
(If this needs more unpacking, Iâm happy to do that!)
When you suppose here that consequentialist bracketing implies neartermism, are you conditioning on space-time region bracketing? (Which is arguably more action-guiding than any form of person-based bracketing?)
Hi Anthony, thanksââunpacking the worry and making it precise would be helpful, yes (especially as it applies to bottom-up bracketing). Perhaps my discussion with Michael can help locate potential disagreements. I just added a few thoughts.
The worry is very similar to the worry about bracketing on persons: identity of person-moments is super fragile.
Letâs say I donate to AMF. There are some far-future person-moments for which I am clueful that donating to AMF seriously harms them, because these person-moments only exist in the possible worlds corresponding to [insert far-future backfire risk here]. And we can say the same substituting in âbenefitsâ for âharmsâ. We then end up a maximal bracket-set on which the donation is good, and one on which the donation is bad.
(If this needs more unpacking, Iâm happy to do that!)
When you suppose here that consequentialist bracketing implies neartermism, are you conditioning on space-time region bracketing? (Which is arguably more action-guiding than any form of person-based bracketing?)
Yeah, spacetime bracketing or some more formally nebulous form of bracketing along the lines here.
Hi Anthony, thanksââunpacking the worry and making it precise would be helpful, yes (especially as it applies to bottom-up bracketing). Perhaps my discussion with Michael can help locate potential disagreements. I just added a few thoughts.