Blueprints (& lenses) for longtermist decision-making

Abstract

This is a post about ontologies. I think that working out what to do is always confusing, but that longtermism poses large extra challenges. I’d like the community to be able to discuss those productively, and I think that some good discussions might be facilitated by having better language for disambiguating between different meta-levels. So I propose using blueprint to refer to principles for deciding between actions, and lens to refer to principles for deciding between blueprints.