I’m sure that’s true, but is anyone (or more than 1 or 2 people) outside of EA even really asking and publishing about that question about comparing intensity of pain between species and how much meeting count might matter regarding this?
I tried to read the referenced articles in the moral weights ticle about neuron count, and the articles I could read (that weren’t behind a paywall) didn’t talk about neuron count nor discussed comparing the intensity of pain between species? Id be interested to read anything which discussed this directly outside of the EA realm.
I kind of thought this was part of the reason why the moral weight’s project is so important, as groups of researchers are deeply considering these questions in ways that perhaps others haven’t before.
Yeah, that’s a fair point, maybe I haven’t seen it because no one has considered how to do the weighting at all outside EA. But my sense is that at the very least many theories are unfriendly to weighting by neuron count (though probably not all).
My inclination was that they were more cognitive pathway theories of how pain works, that might help answer the question on how likely animals were to feel pain rather than thinking much about quantifying that ( which is where neuron count might come in). But I skim read and didn’t understand about half of it well so could easily have missed things.
I’m sure that’s true, but is anyone (or more than 1 or 2 people) outside of EA even really asking and publishing about that question about comparing intensity of pain between species and how much meeting count might matter regarding this?
I tried to read the referenced articles in the moral weights ticle about neuron count, and the articles I could read (that weren’t behind a paywall) didn’t talk about neuron count nor discussed comparing the intensity of pain between species? Id be interested to read anything which discussed this directly outside of the EA realm.
I kind of thought this was part of the reason why the moral weight’s project is so important, as groups of researchers are deeply considering these questions in ways that perhaps others haven’t before.
Yeah, that’s a fair point, maybe I haven’t seen it because no one has considered how to do the weighting at all outside EA. But my sense is that at the very least many theories are unfriendly to weighting by neuron count (though probably not all).
My inclination was that they were more cognitive pathway theories of how pain works, that might help answer the question on how likely animals were to feel pain rather than thinking much about quantifying that ( which is where neuron count might come in). But I skim read and didn’t understand about half of it well so could easily have missed things.