Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? People like Brian or others at FRI don’t seem particularly averse to philosophical deliberation to me...
People vary in what kinds of values change they would consider drift vs. endorsed deliberation. Brian has in the past publicly come down unusually far on the side of “change = drift,” I’ve encountered similar views on one other occasion from this crowd, and I had heard second hand that this was relatively common.
Brian or someone more familiar with his views could speak more authoritatively to that aspect of the question, and I might be mistaken about the views of the suffering-focused utilitarians more broadly.
People vary in what kinds of values change they would consider drift vs. endorsed deliberation. Brian has in the past publicly come down unusually far on the side of “change = drift,” I’ve encountered similar views on one other occasion from this crowd, and I had heard second hand that this was relatively common.
Brian or someone more familiar with his views could speak more authoritatively to that aspect of the question, and I might be mistaken about the views of the suffering-focused utilitarians more broadly.