General problem: we have one set of reasonable intuitions about moral patients (reality-fluid unrelated to decision-theoretic weight, ...
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... consequence-free dust specks do matter), and one for moral agents (the opposite), but: (a) those categories are heavily correlated
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(b) it's hard to tell which things are in which category(ies) at which times
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(c) we seem to value moral agency, which is unpleasantly recursive
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@nicktarleton Be aware that the new Twitter thread formatter hides the middle tweets of a chained series like this.
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