If AUP is not in fact about restricting an agent’s impact on the world (or, in other words, on the state of the world)
So the end result is this, but it doesn’t do it by considering impact to be a thing that happens to the state primarily, but rather to agents; impact not in the sense of “how different is the state”, but “how big of a deal is this to me?”. The objective is to limit the agent’s impact on us, which I think is the more important thing. I think this still falls under normal colloquial use of ‘impact’, but I agree that this is different from the approaches so far. I’m going to talk about this distinction quite a bit in the future.
So the end result is this, but it doesn’t do it by considering impact to be a thing that happens to the state primarily, but rather to agents; impact not in the sense of “how different is the state”, but “how big of a deal is this to me?”. The objective is to limit the agent’s impact on us, which I think is the more important thing. I think this still falls under normal colloquial use of ‘impact’, but I agree that this is different from the approaches so far. I’m going to talk about this distinction quite a bit in the future.