Thanks for sharing! I particularly liked tables 1 and 2.
Do you have any thoughts on the effect on moral weight of the satisfaction of each pain criterion, besides the fact it increases as more criteria are satisfied? It seems like this research could be very valuable to adjust the heuristic according to which moral weight is directly proportional to the number of neurons.
Vasco—thanks so much! Sajedeh did a wonderful job with the tables (as well as many other great figures in the publication itself).
Rethink Priorities has an interdisciplinary team working on the many complexities of moral weight (including how important to consider neuron numbers). I know more work will be coming out from that team in the next two weeks on this topic, which I’m sure they can speak about more elegantly and critically than I can.
Thanks for sharing! I particularly liked tables 1 and 2.
Do you have any thoughts on the effect on moral weight of the satisfaction of each pain criterion, besides the fact it increases as more criteria are satisfied? It seems like this research could be very valuable to adjust the heuristic according to which moral weight is directly proportional to the number of neurons.
Vasco—thanks so much! Sajedeh did a wonderful job with the tables (as well as many other great figures in the publication itself).
Rethink Priorities has an interdisciplinary team working on the many complexities of moral weight (including how important to consider neuron numbers). I know more work will be coming out from that team in the next two weeks on this topic, which I’m sure they can speak about more elegantly and critically than I can.
You can follow that project here: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​s/​​y5n47MfgrKvTLE3pw
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