“Hedonism is very much a minority view amongst philosophers, and “objective list” theories that are at least arguably friendly to human specialness (or maybe to human and mammal specialness) are by far the most popular: https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/5206″
Because of this, I like Bob Fischer’s comittment above to keep trying to generate Moral weights that don’t assume hedonism. Otherwise we only have the current RP numbers, and we will see similar graphs and arguments “conditional on hedonism” which might not reflect the range of opinions people both EAs and non-EAs have about whether or not we should look at the world purely hedonistically…
Niceone, If this is the case
“Hedonism is very much a minority view amongst philosophers, and “objective list” theories that are at least arguably friendly to human specialness (or maybe to human and mammal specialness) are by far the most popular: https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/5206″
Because of this, I like Bob Fischer’s comittment above to keep trying to generate Moral weights that don’t assume hedonism. Otherwise we only have the current RP numbers, and we will see similar graphs and arguments “conditional on hedonism” which might not reflect the range of opinions people both EAs and non-EAs have about whether or not we should look at the world purely hedonistically…