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> They're not even confirmed to be fully conscious Please read the cited Rethink Priorities research: https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range
by sodality2 2y ago
> They're not even confirmed to be fully conscious
Please read the cited Rethink Priorities research: https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range-estimates/ https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range-es...
Notably the FAQ and responses.
- AlexandrB 2y agoI think Dennis Prager is a hack, but this quote looms larger in my mind as I get older. > The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid. The entire effort to quantify morality rests on the shakiest of foundations but makes confident claims about its own validity based on layers and layers of mathematical obfuscation and abstraction.