Huh, most things we historically included in the moral circle seem really dumb to me. See the classic Gwern post on historical moral circles: https://gwern.net/narrowing-circle
There are only some quite narrow and specific moral circle expansions that make sense, but most historical ones seemed very confused (like, really a lot of spirits, a lot of dead people, a lot of inanimate objects, a lot of stuff like inherent value assigned to nations or organizations).
Though haven’t most recent moral circle expansions been good, even if there have been some reductions that have also been good? And AI seems much closer to recent historical expansions than to historical things that were removed?
Huh, most things we historically included in the moral circle seem really dumb to me. See the classic Gwern post on historical moral circles: https://gwern.net/narrowing-circle
There are only some quite narrow and specific moral circle expansions that make sense, but most historical ones seemed very confused (like, really a lot of spirits, a lot of dead people, a lot of inanimate objects, a lot of stuff like inherent value assigned to nations or organizations).
Thanks, hadn’t seen that, that is an update
Though haven’t most recent moral circle expansions been good, even if there have been some reductions that have also been good? And AI seems much closer to recent historical expansions than to historical things that were removed?