It’s fairly rare (lately) that I’ve read something that meaningfully shifted my distribution of “what sorts of moral and/or consciousness theories I’m likely to subscribe to after more learning/reflection.”
I think this is probably mostly has to do with me being in a valley where there’s a lot of “relatively easy” concepts I’ve already learned, and then [potentially] harder concepts that I’d have to put a lot of work into understanding. (I did kinda bounce of Luke’s longer post on consciousness, although I think that had more to do with length than being over-my-head)
But this post seemed well targeted towards 2018_raemon’s background. I had thought about high-clockspeed being relevant for the moral relevance of digital-minds, but somehow hadn’t considered that this might also make hummingbirds more morally relevant than humans.
(To be clear, all of this is hedged with massive uncertainty, and I currently don’t expect to end up believing hummingbirds are more relevant. But it felt like a big shift in how I carved up the space of possibilities)
It’s fairly rare (lately) that I’ve read something that meaningfully shifted my distribution of “what sorts of moral and/or consciousness theories I’m likely to subscribe to after more learning/reflection.”
I think this is probably mostly has to do with me being in a valley where there’s a lot of “relatively easy” concepts I’ve already learned, and then [potentially] harder concepts that I’d have to put a lot of work into understanding. (I did kinda bounce of Luke’s longer post on consciousness, although I think that had more to do with length than being over-my-head)
But this post seemed well targeted towards 2018_raemon’s background. I had thought about high-clockspeed being relevant for the moral relevance of digital-minds, but somehow hadn’t considered that this might also make hummingbirds more morally relevant than humans.
(To be clear, all of this is hedged with massive uncertainty, and I currently don’t expect to end up believing hummingbirds are more relevant. But it felt like a big shift in how I carved up the space of possibilities)